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Anthony Porter, Reconsidered

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

"It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble, it's what we know for a fact that just ain't so." One of the things everybody in the death penalty debate knows for a fact is that Anthony Porter of Chicago was an innocent man, wrongly convicted, and sentenced to death. Everybody knows that he was saved at the eleventh hour because idealistic young journalism students uncovered in a class project the truth that had eluded professionals of both sides in the original investigation and trial. Until today, I believed that myself, never having heard it challenged. Today at the conference of the Association of Government Attorneys in Capital Litigation, I heard a talk by James Sotos, who now represents the man "everyone knows" is the real killer, Alstory Simon...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on August 28, 2008 (boomark / email).