Man freed from prison sues Northwestern, says he was framed
Source: Associated Press
Man freed from prison sues Northwestern, says he was framed
| February 17, 2015 | Updated: February 17, 2015 5:33pm
CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago man whose confession helped free a death row inmate in a case that was instrumental to ending capital punishment in Illinois before he recanted filed a $40 million lawsuit Tuesday against Northwestern University and a professor he alleges conspired to frame him.
Alstory Simon says shoddy oversight by Northwestern allowed former journalism professor David Protess, private investigator Paul Ciolino and defense attorney Jack Rimland to conspire to frame him for a 1982 double slaying in which two people were shot as they sat in a park on Chicago's South Side. Simon was released from prison last year after the Cook County State's Attorney's Office said it found evidence that the other man was responsible.
Simon's videotaped confession had led authorities to free Anthony Porter less than 48 hours before his scheduled execution in 1999. Porter had spent 16 years on death row for slayings he and his supporters maintained he did not commit. The Porter case helped prompt then-Gov. George Ryan to declare a moratorium on executions in 2003. Then-Gov. Pat Quinn abolished the death penalty in 2011.
Northwestern spokesman Alan K. Cubbage denied any wrongdoing, adding the university would be vindicated in court.
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