Reporting by David Protess and his students, both before and after his time at the Medill Innocence Project, has had a part in freeing more than 10 wrongly convicted men from prison — five of them from death row.

David Dowaliby

CONVICTION The 1990 murder of his 7-year-old daughter.

PROBLEMS WITH CASE Erroneous interpretation of forensic evidence and faulty testimony.

RESULT OF INVESTIGATION Verdict was reversed in 1991.

Steven Linscott

CONVICTION Murder of a neighbor in 1980. Acquitted of rape at the same trial.

PROBLEMS WITH CASE Inconclusive forensic evidence.

RESULT OF INVESTIGATION Verdict was reversed in 1992.