CHICAGO (AP) – A hearing involving Northwestern University journalism students whose grades were subpoenaed in connection with an investigation of a decades-old murder case is scheduled for Monday.
Cook County Circuit Judge Diane Cannon told attorneys to be in court, but didn’t give a reason.
That’s according to Cook County State’s Attorney spokeswoman Saly Daley.
A hearing had been scheduled for March 10.
The state’s attorney’s office subpoenaed professor David Protess seeking his syllabus, grades and e-mails.
That was after his classes said they had uncovered evidence that Anthony McKinney was wrongfully convicted for a 1978 murder.
Prosecutors claim students may have been under pressure to prove McKinney’s innocence for good grades.
Protess and the students deny that.
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