CHICAGO (AP) - Inmates and their supporters are getting creative in their bids to draw attention to their cases.
A wooden sign along Chicago's Stevenson Expressway reads "Free Matt Sopron." Backers of another inmate in prison for a 1991 killing and armed robbery in Bloomington have passed out "Free Jamie Snow" wristbands to draw attention to efforts to get DNA testing to help show he's innocent.
And supporters of a Rockford man use social media to explain efforts to undo his conviction.
Defense attorney Allan Ackerman, who has represented Sopron since 1998, believes the public appeals make a difference. He says the effort provides the public with a visual approach to an "often broken" system.
