Gascon Team Eager to Take Second Look at Questionable Convictions

The unit’s investigations have been “fairly cursory,” said attorney Paula Mitchell, who directs Loyola Law School’s Project for the Innocent and has worked with Gascón on improving the integrity office. Mitchell represented Andrew Wilson, whose murder conviction was overturned in 2017 after he spent 32 years in prison. Lacey’s office refused to reconsider the case, Mitchell said, but a judge vacated the conviction.

The integrity unit previously was staffed by prosecutors whose efforts had led to some of the convictions they were reviewing, Mitchell said.