Prosecutors Say Students Paid Witness to Aid Case – NYTimes.com
Prosecutors said they wanted to determine whether students believed they would receive better grades if they provided evidence to help exonerate the convict… [and have] subpoenaed the grades, e-mail messages and records of students who investigated the murder conviction for the university’s Medill Innocence Project. … Professional journalism groups are concerned that the students may have to submit information they gathered during reporting.
Between student privacy, protection for journalist work materials, bribing a witness, this case sounds like a real tangle.