Famous Illinois Criminal Defense Attorney Kathleen Zellner provides an explanation as to why a county like McLean has so many wrongful case convictions

Nationally known criminal defense attorney Kathleen Zellner of Illinois, who rose to further fame representing Steven Avery in the Netflix series Making a Murderer, was interviewed this past year by Harvey Brownstone, a former criminal defense attorney and retired judge in Canada who is a bestselling author and host of a television and internet talk show. A portion of their interview speaks ever so loudly as to the main reason there now exists five wrongfully convicted men in McLean County being referred to as the McLean County Five. All five were wrongfully convicted between 1987 and 2002 for the time period in which he was in charge of the McLean County’s State’s Attorney office. See image below showing the five wrongful conviction cases now attributed to former McLean County State’s Attorney (Chief Prosecutor) Charles Reynard who served from 1983-2002 and his assistant Teena Griffin.

CLICK THIS LINK TO HEAR KATHLEEN ZELLNER’S ONE AND A HALF MINUTE EXPLANATION

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Chris Ross, cousin of Barton McNeil, lives in San Diego and is an unwavering advocate for his innocence. For thirteen years there were no breaks to reverse the fate that had befallen a loving father no person can imagine. Then in September 2011 his violent estranged girlfriend Misook Nowlin Wang, always the known second leading suspect in his daughter’s 1998 murder, returned to Bloomington and strangled to death her mother-in-law in a macabre premediated murder. A murder in which she buried her mother-in-law at a post-midnight hour in the presence of her 5-year-old son. She exacted revenge against her husband Don Wang for having an extramarital affair just as she avenged Barton 13 years earlier for breaking up with her leaving her the classic woman scorned.

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