Clear and Convincing - Alstory Simon with Martin Preib & William Crawford

In 1999, Alstory Simon pled guilty to a crime he didn’t commit.  His plea came about after a private investigator and a Northwestern journalism professor and his students investigating a 1982 double murder case in Chicago decided that Simon was the “real killer” and fabricated evidence that led to Simon’s coerced and false confession.  The killer, Anthony Porter, was released from prison as a result of their investigation.  Not satisfied with freeing Porter, the investigator, professor and students gave false testimony to two grand juries convened in the case.  Simon was indicted by the second grand jury, based on the false testimony offered by Porter’s advocates.  Simon spent the next 15 years challenging his plea.  He was released in 2014.  Join Lisa O’Brien and Michael Carnahan on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, at 8:00 p.m. CDT,  for an interview with Martin Preib a Chicago police officer and the author of Crooked City, whose work on the documentary Murder in the Park helped free Simon from prison and William Crawford, a former reporter, writer and legal affairs columnist for the Chicago Tribune and the author of Justice Perverted:  How The Innocence Project at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism Sent an Innocent Man to Prison.   We’re a live show and calls are always welcome at (347) 989-1171.

In Memory of William “Bill” Allen
Loving Husband, Son, Brother, Father and Grandfather
January 1, 1956 to June 17, 2018