Police recruits get an upclose lesson in how to avoid wrongful convictions

URBANA — At 17, Terrill Swift was just starting to figure out what to do with his life. Little did he know that in the spring of 1995, when he was arrested for a crime he did not commit, his calling was taking shape. “It changed my life,” Swift said of his wrongful conviction for the rape and murder of a 30-year-old woman in Englewood, near Chicago. One of the so-called “Englewood Four,” Swift spent 15 years behind bars before DNA evidence exonerated him and three other young men. He had already completed his sentence and was on parole when…