CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A high-profile Tennessee case is giving new energy to efforts here in Chicago to free a sex worker convicted of murdering a high school teacher in 2014.
"Just because someone's doing something illegal doesn't mean that they deserve to be in physical risk and deserve to have violence perpetrated against them. That's a really, really important part of this," said Kelsey Bourgeois.
Bourgeois has started a petition drive for Alisha Walker.
Five years ago, Walker, a sex worker, fatally stabbed a Brother Rice High School teacher who had agreed to pay her for sex. An argument ended in the stabbing.
Walker claimed it was self-defense.
Her case may be getting a boost from the Tennessee case of Cyntoia Brown, who has been granted clemency after serving 15 years in prison for shooting and killing a man who had picked her up for sex.
She claimed self-defense.
