Two witnesses in an investigation by Northwestern University journalism students told investigators they were paid, prosecutors alleged today.
The witnesses, Tony Drakes and Michael Lane, told investigators with the state's attorney's office that they were given money in the hopes that their statements that would help free Anthony McKinney, convicted of the shotgun-slaying of a guard in 1982, prosecutors said in court filings today.
"This evidence shows that Tony Drakes gave his video statement upon the understanding that he would receive cash if he gave the answers that inculpated himself and that Drakes promptly used the money to purchase crack cocaine," the filing reads.
And typical liberal professor responds by trying to taint the accusers:
- Professor David Protess of the university's Medill School of Journalism called the latest filing by the state "so filled with factual errors that if my students had done this kind of reporting or investigating, I would have given them an F."
Sure, and if the Courts ever find out you're paying witnesses, even by slipping them cab fare as "change" so he can go and buy rocks, your witness loses all credibility and you're subject to all sorts of contempt charges, solicitation of testimony, bribery, etc. You kind of blow your "journalist" claims and maybe even your University accreditation and quite possibly your tenure. One can only hope.
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