What happens when a bunch of university students are able to dig up enough evidence to force authorities to revisit a murder investigation, even after someone’s been sent to jail for it? Well, if you’re a prosecutor, you go on a fishing expedition—through the students’ lives:
However, state's attorneys in Illinois are now subpoenaing all sorts of excess information on the students themselves, including their grades, the grading criteria, student evaluations, and private notes and and off-the-record interviews that were used in gathering the information necessary for the case. While the state's attorney Anita Alvarez is defending this overreaching subpoena effort, it has many concerned that this is really just an attempt to intimidate the students and create a serious chilling effect on this type of investigative research. It's difficult to see how the student's grades make any difference at all in whether or not McKinney is innocent or guilty.
Brilliant.
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