Chicago, Illinois — The stage is set once more for a courtroom battle soaked in blood and betrayal. Dr. Wyndham Lathem, once a respected Northwestern University immunology professor, now awaits his retrial for a murder that stunned the city. The killing took place in July 2017. The victim, Trenton Cornell-Duranleau, a 26-year-old hairstylist, was found butchered in his North State Street apartment. He had been stabbed more than 50 times in what authorities described as a twisted, premeditated act of sexual violence. Two men were arrested. Lathem, the academic, and Andrew Warren, a payroll clerk from Oxford, England. While both were convicted, it was Warren who came across as the more violent and unhinged of the two. Back in the United Kingdom, he had been previously convicted of armed kidnapping and sexual assault on another male but those records are hidden from the public by British law. He was no choirboy. Desperate for a conviction, prosecutors cut a deal with Warren to testify...

Los Angeles, CA-- Due process and our dubious criminal justice system is really not doing well.   Exonerations are on the rise as exhaustive post conviction investigations expose police, crime lab or prosecutorial misconduct.  It takes decades to expose wrongful convictions as these victims rot in our prisons.  This is not about reducing the penalties that criminals deserve.  This is about pure and simple justice and fairness.   Prosecutors have been given excessive powers in recent years that they nearly always abuse.  Juries almost never hear about the checkered backgrounds of witnesses and so-called victims.  The backgrounds of the accused however are nearly always disclosed.   We routinely convict people in circumstantial cases where the jury guesses guilt or innocence.   If a jury has to guess, that should dictate an acquittal but that’s just not how it works.   I have worked with the best and worst la...