08-12-12 Radio Chicagoland Gierach Warden & topics

Radio Chicagoland Sunday August 12, 2012 with host Ray Hanania, Kheir Fakhreldin and Big Jon Vic www.RadioChicagoland.com 8 AM - Oak Lawn Attorney Jim Gierach discusses how drug laws feed the violence in Chicago 8:30 AM - Rob Warden, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University School of Law. CWC client Kristine Bunch is a step closer to freedom after languishing 16 years behind bars for the arson murder of her 3-year-old son in Decatur County, Indiana. The Indiana Supreme Court today denied the prosecution’s request to review an Indiana Court of Appeals decision reversing and remanding the case. Kristine is represented by a team led by CWC Advisory Board Member Ronald Safer, of Schiff Hardin; Kelly M. Warner, a Schiff Hardin partner, and CWC staff attorneys Jane Raley and Karen Daniel. Read the Indiana Court of Appeals opinion. Also, we discuss the Arabs at the Olympics and the challenges facing American Arabs with unfamiliar Middle Eastern names to survive in America. We talk about alternatives for them. Should they change their names? And which names are "safest?"