Rob Warden
Rob Warden
Rob Warden is an American journalist. He was the executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University School of Law. He retired in 2014 and is now Executive Director, Emeritus. An award winning legal affairs journalist, he is the co-author with David Protess of A Promise of Justice on the pardons of the Ford Heights Four, and Gone in the Night on the reversal of David Dowaliby's conviction. He provides a legal analysis in the...
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Even 25 years ago, we might not have believed it. We knew there were crazy people, people who for some strange reason might confess to a crime he or she did not commit, and we understood torture, but we didn't understand the psychological factors that would make it possible.
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