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Former Chicago FOP officials push to recharge 3 gang members in off-duty officer’s killing
Former leaders of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) are urging federal prosecutors and Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill-Burke to bring charges against three members of the Spanish Cobras street gang in the 2011 murder of Officer Clifton Lewis.
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Brothers exonerated of murder by former State’s Attorney Kim Foxx attempt to drag the spectre of former Cdr. Jon Burge into their wrongful conviction lawsuits
Lawyers for the city of Chicago, named in a wrongful conviction lawsuit brought by exonerated brothers Sean Tyler and Reginald Henderson, are accusing lawyers for the brothers of trying to draw the emotionally charged allegations of torture against former CPD Commander Jon Burge into their lawsuits filed in federal court in 2023.
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Federal judge presses convicted murderer Nevest Coleman for facts in his wrongful conviction suit
A federal judge struck a status hearing in the wrongful conviction case of Nevest Colman and Derrell Fulton,
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City of Chicago at odds with Cook Co. over $3.1 million Bouto wrongful conviction settlement
In September Robert Bouto struck a $3.1 million “good faith” settlement with Cook County in his wrongful conviction lawsuit stemming from the 1993 murder of Salvador Ruvalcaba.
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Nevest Coleman’s wrongful conviction lawsuit challenged, defense calls affidavit a 'sham'
Defense attorneys for former Chicago detectives are challenging an affidavit filed by convicted murderer Nevest Coleman in his wrongful conviction lawsuit, calling it a “sham.”
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Exonerated by Kim Foxx, convicted murderer gets twelve years for a home invasion
One of the hundreds of convicted murderers exonerated by former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx o