Prosecutors Say Journalism Students Paid Sources; Students Say
Prosecutors Put Innocent Man in Jail  (AP Photo/M. Spencer
Green) Photo: Northwestern University professor David Protess
with students in Evanston, Ill., Oct. 26, 2009.  CHICAGO
(CBS/AP) How do college journalism students become prosecution
targets in a murder case? Here's how.  Anthony McKinney is
serving a life sentence in Illinois for the 1978 murder of a
security guard. Journalism students at Northwestern University
are making a case that McKinney is an innocent man. And now
prosecutors are claiming the student-journalists paid off two
witnesses in their quest for a new trial or exoneration for
McKinney.  Prosecutors have claimed that the students were
motivated to find evidence of McKinney's innocence to get good
grades in their class, and they've subpoenaed the class syllabus
and the students' grades.  The students have presented evidence,
including interviews with witnesses, suggesting that several
other men committed the crime. But prosecu