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‘A Murder in the Park’: The Innocence Project That Wasn’t

MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE

In 1999, a team of Northwestern University journalism students freed Anthony Porter days before his execution, sending Alstory Simon to jail in his stead. Nothing was as it seemed.

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In 2012, I was approached by an attorney who sponsored the Crime Stoppers television programs I produced. He had an idea for a documentary about a wrongful conviction.

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