Rob Warden papers, 1972-1989

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Rob Warden papers, 1972-1989

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Court documents, crime reports, judicial surveys, correspondence, newspaper clippings; statistics on judges, race, and the death penalty; research files, and other papers of Rob Warden, a legal affairs journalist who served as the editor and publisher of the Chicago Lawyer monthly magazine during 1978-1989. Most of the collection relates to Warden's research on injustice in murder investigations and trials that resulted in death sentences, as well as research on judges and on prosecutorial misconduct in the state of Illinois. Also present are personal correspondence and other materials relating to death row inmates such as John Wayne Gacy, Cornelius Lewis, Charles Washington; and materials on Cook County State's Attorney Bernard Carey. This collection relates to Warden's research prior to co-founding the Center on Wrongful Convictions, part of the Bluhm Legal Clinic at Northwestern University School of Law.

3.5 linear ft. (8 boxes)

Chicago History Museum

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