NEW INNOCENCE PROJECT NEWS: Prosecutors say Northwestern investigator paid witness. “Prosecutors allege that after conducting a 2004 interview with Drakes, an investigator with the team paid a cab driver $60 to take from the interview site, a park in downstate Swansea, to a gas station two miles away. That amount was more than the fare and tip, and leftover cash — $40 — was given to Drakes; he used it to buy crack at a nearby crackhouse, the filing states. David Protess, director of the Innocence Project, acknowledged Drakes was given money for cab fare but denied it was a pay-off for a statement that implicated himself in the killing.” Well, if you’ll implicate yourself for murder for $40 . . . then, like the song says, you must be on crack.