'Innocence' lost: Anti-death penalty group accused of sending wrong man to priso

[Ptarmigan]

'Innocence' lost: Anti-death penalty group accused of sending wrong man to prison
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/14/innocence-lost-anti-death-penalty-group-accused-sending-wrong-man-to-prison/?intcmp=latestnews

An anti-death penalty group renowned for sparing wrongly-convicted inmates from execution, often by exposing coerced confessions and fabricated evidence, is being accused of sending an innocent man to prison for 15 years by using the very tactics it condemns.

Alstory Simon was freed last month after serving time for a double murder for which he was convicted based on a coerced confession given to the Medill Innocence Project, a legal advocacy group affiliated with Northwestern University, according to his attorney, Terry Ekl. The group, which was established in 1999 to reinvestigate murder convictions in Illinois, has been credited with freeing 11 innocent men from death row and playing a key role in the state's 2003 decision to suspend executions.

Ekl said the Medill Innocence Project's strategy for getting the death penalty scrapped involved making Anthony Porter its "poster child," and to accomplish that, it sought to pin the 1982 double murder he'd been convicted of on Simon.

How ironic. They very thing they condemn, they use the same tactics. I am weary of activist groups in general.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Since they can't be put to death, I hope Mr. Simon sues the living shit out of them.