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Hearing Scheduled in Case of NU Journalism Students
CHICAGO (AP) -- A judge has questioned attorneys in a case involving Northwestern University journalism students whose e-mails and grades were subpoenaed after their investigation of a decades-old murder.

Cook County Circuit Judge Diane Cannon on Monday sought clarification from defense attorneys for Anthony McKinney and set a hearing date for March 10.

The Cook County state's attorney's office subpoenaed Northwestern professor David Protess seeking his syllabus, grades and e-mails. His classes say they uncovered evidence that McKinney was wrongfully convicted for a 1978 murder of a security guard.

Prosecutors claim students may have been under pressure to prove McKinney's innocence for good grades. But Protess and the students have denied that.

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