<p>[Northwestern</a> University’s Medill Innocence Project is in a standoff with Cook County prosecutors – chicagotribune.com](<a href=“Chicago News - Chicago Tribune - Chicago Tribune”>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-nu-subpoena-19-oct19,0,3778012.story)
<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/us/25innocence.html?pagewanted=1[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/us/25innocence.html?pagewanted=1</a></p>
<p>How would you decide if you were the judge?</p>
<p>If there is material critical to the case and it appears that it is, if it is substantive enough to prove innocence or guilt, then it is standard procedure to turn the information over to those defending/prosecuting the case, is it not?</p>
<p>But things like student grades are no more relevant to the case than how the prosecutors are graded for their job. The students are not witnesses in the case. Do people look into how prosecutors/the police are compensated and how their performance is reviewed (based on #/% conviction?)? Do people investigate what police officers/prosecuting team talk about among themselves for a murder trial?</p>