THE MEDILL JUSTICE PROJECT PROBES EXPERT WITNESSES IN ‘SHAKEN-BABY’ MURDER CONVICTION

Investigative student journalists at Northwestern permitted to video record prisoners for first timeEVANSTON, Ill., March 19, 2013 – Undergraduate journalism students at Northwestern University investigating a former Chicago-area day care worker’s first-degree murder conviction are raising questions about the role of expert testimony in a 2005 Will County, Ill., trial. Jennifer Del Prete is accused of violently shaking a 3 ½-month-old infant at a Romeoville, Ill., day care, causing head injuries that led to her death nearly a year later. Students in a winter investigative journalism