Rob Warden, Executive Director at the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwest University in Chicago, will present a lecture on wrongful convictions at 11:00 a.m., Friday, March 30th, in the Crimson and Gold Ball Room, Overman Center.
Warden is an award winning legal affairs journalist who, as editor and publisher of Chicago Lawyer magazine during the 1980’s exposed more than a score of wrongful convictions in Illinois, including cases in which six innocent men had been sentenced to death. He has won more than fifty journalism awards. In, 2003, he was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame. He has also been featured on 60 Minutes.
Please feel free to come early for the meet and greet at 10:00 a.m. Warden’s latest book True Stories of False Confessions is on sale NOW in The Pittsburg State University Book Store and will be for sale that day and he will be available to sign books. This is a FREE EVENT TO ALL in conjunction with The Dead Man Walking School Theater Project.
For more information you can contact Sara Mills at smills@gus.pittstate.edu and Abby Sutton at asutton@gus.pittstate.edu.