MEDILL INNOCENCE PROJECT STUDENTS PUBLISH GROUNDBREAKING STORIES ABOUT MURDER VICTIM AND ELUSIVE EYEWITNESS

For the first time in the Medill Innocence Project’s 13-year history, students tell the victim’s story and publish an article about co-defendant of Illinois inmate Ariel Gomez who disputes Gomez’s claims of innocenceEVANSTON, Ill., March 14, 2012 -- Northwestern University journalism students supported by the Medill Innocence Project have published two groundbreaking stories: a profile of the murder victim’s wife and another based on interviews with a key eyewitness who said his childhood friend, Ariel Gomez, is guilty of the murder for which he was convicted. Students have been