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Saturday, November 21, 2009 10:50 PM

Anita Alvarez

Type: Person
Name: Anita Alvarez
First Reported 18 hours ago - Updated 17 hours ago - 3 Documents (in Politics)
Cop charged with stealing about $600,000 from union fund
Prosecutors allege about $600,000 stolenXText SizeThe head of the Chicago police sergeants' union was charged with looting union dues to pay for steak dinners, gambling trips to Las Vegas and a second residence in the city's Sauganash neighborhood.Sgt. ... [Chicago Tribune - 17 hours ago]
First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Cop accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from sergeants' group
A sergeant with the Chicago Police Department is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Chicago Police Sergeants' Association, authorities said.Charges were filed against the sergeant following an investigation by the Cook County ... [Chicago Tribune - 11/20/2009]
First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Taking Aim at Student Muckrakers
Since 1992, Prof. David Protess at the Medill school at Northwestern University has worked with undergraduate journalism students to investigate cases in which prosecutors appear to have taken aim at the wrong people. That might be about to happen again, ... [New York Times - 11/16/2009]
First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Defending Journalism
Undergraduate journalism students at Northwestern University investigate cases where it appears the wrong person may have been sentenced for a crime they did not commit. To date, the course taught by professor David Protess has exonerated of 11 men–included ... [Discover Magazine - 11/16/2009]
First Reported 11/04/2009 - Updated 11/04/2009 - 3 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Justice and truth take a back seat in Chicago
Anthony McKinney got a life sentence for running down the street.The suburban Chicago street down which he ran, on Sept. 15, 1978, took him near the spot where security guard Donald Lundahl had earlier been shot to death. Police, still on the scene investigating, ... [Chicago Tribune - 11/04/2009]
First Reported 11/10/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Chicago student-journalists probed for motives (Reuters)
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A group of university students who claim their research exonerated a convicted murderer were in court themselves on Tuesday, accused of sloppy work and credibility problems.Cook County Prosecutor Anita Alvarez has issued a subpoena ... [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/11/2009]
First Reported 10/27/2009 - Updated 10/27/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
SCOTT HORTON—Chicago Prosecutors Go to War With the Press
By Scott HortonLast fall Anita Alvarez was elected to a tough slot. As state’s attorney for Cook County, she took the helm of one of the nation’s foremost prosecutorial teams, and also a crew whose performance over the last couple of decades has inspired ... [Harpers Magazine - 10/27/2009]
First Reported 11/09/2009 - Updated 11/09/2009 - 3 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Ill. prosecutors probe journalism students' grades
CHICAGO – A Northwestern University professor and journalism students who spent three years investigating the case of a man convicted in the 1978 killing of a security guard believe they have evidence that shows prosecutors put the wrong man behind bars. ... [First Amendment Center - 11/09/2009]
First Reported 10/22/2009 - Updated 10/23/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Northwestern journalism students fight subpoenas
Journalism students working on the Medill Innocence Project at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism are fighting subpoenas requesting their grades, off-the-record interviews, electronic communications, notes, course syllabi, grading criteria ... [Student Press Law Center - 10/23/2009]
First Reported 11/10/2009 - Updated 11/10/2009 - 1 Documents
Comment on The Chicago Way by Bob-1
I think the Northwestern case is abhorant, and I’m very disappointed with Anita Alvarez, who I thought well of until now. If nothing else, I can show my displeasure at election time. I do think her side has a point that the Innocence Project isn’t ... [Transterrestrial Musings - 11/10/2009]
First Reported 11/11/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)
Prosecutor pushes smear campaign against students
Editor's note: This column originally appeared on the blog Dissenting Justice.Nov. 11, 2009 |Recently, major news outlets reported that Anita Alvarez, the District Attorney for Cook County, Illinois, had subpoenaed the grades, grading standards, and electronic ... [Salon - 11/11/2009]
First Reported 11/13/2009 - Updated 11/13/2009 - 1 Documents
Seeking and obtaining justice
In 'Justice and truth take a back seat in Chicago' (Commentary, Nov. 4), Washington-based columnist Leonard Pitts accuses the Cook County state's attorney's office of 'overreach' and states that we are conducting a 'fishing trip' in seeking information ... [Chicago Tribune - 11/13/2009]

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"this case makes this a very difficult day for all of us in law enforcement" said State s AttorneyAttorney Anita Alvarez
Cop charged with stealing about $600,000 from union fund [Chicago Tribune - 17 hours ago]
...StateState s AttorneyAttorney Anita Alvarez (pictured) defended the issuance of the subpoena, which was reported Monday by the Chicago Tribune. "if you're going to put yourself into the role of an investigator, then you need to turn over whatever your notes are" Alvarez said...
Prosecutor Defends Subpoena to Students [Law.com - 10/21/2009]

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Cop charged with stealing about $600,000 from u... [Chicago Tribune - 17 hours ago]
Cop charged with ripping off union fund [Chicago Tribune - 17 hours ago]
Chicago police sergeant charged with stealing a... [Chicago Tribune - 18 hours ago]
Cop accused of stealing hundreds of thousands o... [Chicago Tribune - 11/20/2009]
Defending Journalism [Discover Magazine - 11/16/2009]
Taking Aim at Student Muckrakers [New York Times - 11/16/2009]
Seeking and obtaining justice [Chicago Tribune - 11/13/2009]
Prosecutor pushes smear campaign against students [Salon - 11/11/2009]
Chicago student-journalists probed for motives ... [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/11/2009]
Prosecutors say NU student paid for statement [Chicago Tribune - 11/10/2009]
Comment on The Chicago Way by Bob-1 [Transterrestrial Musings - 11/10/2009]
Ill. prosecutors probe journalism students' grades [First Amendment Center - 11/09/2009]
Prosecutors Still Won't Explain Why They're Sub... [The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - 11/09/2009]
Students Who Exposed 30-Year-Old Wrongful Convi... [AlterNet.org - 11/09/2009]
EDITORIAL: Don't mess with the 'Wash U Six' [STLtoday.com - 11/05/2009]
Judge drops case against cop honored for hundre... [Chicago Tribune - 11/05/2009]
Charges dropped for cop who targeted DUIs [Chicago Tribune - 11/05/2009]
Ticket-writing indictment dismissed against top... [Chicago Tribune - 11/04/2009]
Justice and truth take a back seat in Chicago [Chicago Tribune - 11/04/2009]
Injustice compounded in McKinney case [Miami Herald - 11/04/2009]
Pitts: Justice, truth take back seat [Chicago Tribune - 11/04/2009]
Quash the press [Washington Post - 11/01/2009]
IL: Governor gets bill to requir... [Stateline - 10/30/2009]
Gang members caught with loaded weapon would ge... [Chicago Tribune - 10/29/2009]
Former fugitive Maday ordered held without bond [Chicago Sun-Times - 10/28/2009]
SCOTT HORTON—Chicago Prosecutors Go to War With... [Harpers Magazine - 10/27/2009]
Prosecutors Turn Tables on Student Journalists [New York Times - 10/25/2009]
Northwestern journalism students fight subpoenas [Student Press Law Center - 10/23/2009]
Medill-McKinney Case: Are Student Journalists P... [Time - 10/22/2009]
Family Of Teen Exonerated In Derrion Albert Dea... [The Huffington Post | Full News Feed - 10/22/2009]
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Marcel Pacatte: Judge Should Laugh Subpoena Req... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - 11/10/2009]
Anita Alvarez is a menace to your freedom. That's why you should care about Alvarez's bid to force my Medill colleague David Protess to open his grade ...
Chicago Prosecutors Playing Hardball With North... [WSJ.com: Law Blog - 10/27/2009]
Did Northwestern journalism-school students improve their grades by landing information that helped to exonerate a man convicted of fatally shooting a security guard ...
Prosecutors Subpoena Tons Of Info On Student Jo... [Techdirt - 10/22/2009]
Northwestern University's Medill Innocence Project is a very cool program for journalism students, teaching them investigative reporting techniques in the real world, ...
Prosecutor Defends Subpoena to Students [Legal Blog Watch - 10/21/2009]
Call this course, "Introduction to Overreaching." But it is not one students at Northwestern University's Medill journalism school willingly signed up for. The state's ...
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