The New York Times is reporting prosecutors in Illinois have subpoenaed the grades, grading criteria, class syllabi, expense reports and email messages of journalism students at Northwestern University. The request targets students who are part of the Medill Innocence Project that has helped lead to the release of eleven prisoners who were wrongfully convicted. Prosecutors are focusing on the students who conducted a three-year investigation into Anthony McKinney, who was convicted of fatally shooting a security guard in 1978. A judge is now reviewing McKinney’s case. As part of its review, lawyers in the Cook County state attorney’s office say that in their quest for justice in the old case, they need every pertinent piece of information about the students’ three-year investigation. But Northwestern is challenging the request, saying it is ridiculously overreaching, irrelevant to McKinney’s case, in violation of the state’s protections for journalists and a breach of federal privacy statutes.