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= Maurice Possley = CHICAGO –Maurice Possley, a former investigative reporter for the Chicago Tribune, was a Pulitzer Prize winner for Investigative Reporting in 2008 and a finalist for National Reporting in 2007.

Introduction
Possley won a Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting in 2008 along with the Chicago Tribune staff. Possley and his coworkers wrote a series of articles exposing faulty governmental regulation of toys, car seats and cribs.

Possley was also a finalist in 2007 for National Reporting due to his work with Steve Mills at the Chicago Tribune. Together Possley and Mills investigated a 1989 execution in the state of Texas, that reportedly strongly suggested that an innocent man was put to death by lethal injection.

Education
Possley attended Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois, where he graduated in 1972. While attending Loyola, he began a work-study as a freshman with the university’s newspaper. Possley participated in production, design, and layout of the newspaper all four years of college.

During Possley’s last year of college, he covered high school basketball scores for the City News Bureau of Chicago.

Employment
Possley was hired by the City News Bureau of Chicago after recording high school basketball team scores for them. Possley next worked for the Chicago Tribune from 1984 to 2008, which became one of his most well known positions. Almost immediately after leaving the Tribune, Possley co-taught a course on wrongful convictions at the University of Michigan Law School until Spring 2009.

Following his time as a lecturer, Possley became a researcher fellow for the Northern California Innocence Project for two years at the Santa Clara University School of Law in California to study prosecutorial misconduct.

Currently, Possley is a senior researcher for the National Registry of Exonerations, a database that went online in 2012. Possley was recruited by Sam Gross, a professor from the University of Michigan, to create narrative summaries for over 250 cases listed in the registry.