Anthony McKinney was a prisoner convicted of killing a security guard in 1978 in

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, Illinois. He was the subject of a

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effort to reinvestigate his case and determine if he was wrongfully convicted. The case obtained notoriety after the Cook County state's attorney subpoenaed the

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students' grades, class syllabus, and personal e-mails. This case is relevant to issues of

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because of the subpoena of journalism school class records as well as issues relating to possible

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.MUHAMMAD ALI BOUT COULD BE KEY TO CLEARING MAN OF MURDER THAT HE WAS CONVICTED OF 27 YEARS AGO,

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, November 20, 2008, archived: Anthony McKinney died on 27 August 2013 of a suspected heart attack in his cell at Dixon Correctional Center in northern Illinois, after thirty-five years in prison.

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