Judge Allows Northwestern To Toss Out The Controversial Evidence In The Anthony McKinney Case
As previously reported, lawyers for McKinney sought to distance themselves from the students who allegedly used improper influence - paying and flirting - over witnesses to get them to give statements that would exonerate McKinney. 
According to news reports, A judge today accepted a request from a man convicted of a 1978 murder to drop much of the controversial evidence pointing to his innocence that was dug up by Northwestern University journalism students. Judge Diane Gordon Cannon agreed to drop the evidence from a motion for a new trial filed by Anthony McKinney. She asked that McKinney sign an affidavit stating he understood the consequences, explaining that he is being treated in a psychiatric ward....The judge in the case has not yet ruled on the subpoena, but Karen Daniel, McKinney's lawyer, has said the more important issue at hand is whether her client was wrongfully convicted. Daniel said she believed dropping much of the questioned evidence would render moot the subpoena, but prosecutors have disagreed. They say all the evidence being used in the battle to get McKinney a new trial was part of the Medill Innocence Project's investigation.
We agree - the entire investigation is at issue. What is Northwestern trying to hide?
