Recently, Johnnie Lee Savory and Steve Drizin, the Center on Wrongful Convictions' legal director, spoke at Northwestern University about their fight to get Illinois to test evidence in Johnnie's case for DNA.
You can listen to their talk on Innocence Speaks: the podcast of the Center on Wrongful Convictions.
Though forensic DNA testing is routine today, it didn’t exist when Johnnie was convicted in 1977. The Center believes that DNA testing will not only exonerate Johnnie, but it will also identify the person who committed the murders for which Johnnie was sent to prison.
And yet, as The New York Times reported, Illinois has repeatedly refused to hand over this evidence "on the grounds that a jury was convinced of his guilt without DNA and that the 175 convicts already exonerated by DNA were 'statistically insignificant.'"
You can join Johnnie fight for justice today. Take two minutes, e-mail Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, and ask him to order DNA testing for Johnnie Lee Savory.
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John Maki
John Maki is a new media consultant for Chicago non-profits. In his spare time, John is also a multi-media producer and contributor for The Windy Citizen. Before working in new media, John taught high school literature, and before that was a graduate student in English literature at the University of Chicago. John is currently in his third year at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
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