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Bill Clutter, a private investigator who started the Illinois Innocence Project in 2001 and now runs a similar program from Louisville, Ky., discusses his proposal for the Illinois attorney general to create a "conviction integrity unit" to investigate claims of actual innocence by people convicted of crimes Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at the state Capitol, in Springfield, Ill. He is holding the clemency petition for the case he's currently pursuing, the conviction of Thomas McMillen in the 1989 abduction and murder of Melissa Koontz of Springfield. (AP Photo/ John O'Connor)

Bill Clutter, a private investigator who started the Illinois Innocence Project in 2001 and now runs a similar program from Louisville, Ky., discusses his proposal for the Illinois attorney general to create a "conviction integrity unit" to investigate claims of actual innocence by people convicted of crimes Tuesday, April 9, 2019, at the state Capitol, in Springfield, Ill. He is holding the clemency petition for the case he's currently pursuing, the conviction of Thomas McMillen in the 1989 abduction and murder of Melissa Koontz of Springfield. (AP Photo/ John O'Connor)

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