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Former prosecutor: Lawyers for Kim Foxx exonerees are on 'fishing expedition' in wrongful conviction lawsuit
Lawyers battling in the wrongful conviction lawsuits of two brothers convicted of the 1994 murder of a 10-year-boy on the South Side continue to dicker over the expanse of files to be included in the discovery phase of claims that the brothers’ constitutional rights were violated in their arrest and prosecution.
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Convicted murderer withdraws some claims against Chicago detectives, prosecutors in wrongful conviction suit
Exonerated murderer Nevest Coleman has backtracked on some of his claims against Chicago detectives in his wrongful conviction suit in federal court, a move one legal analyst called “very good” for Chicago police who have been named in dozens of questionable wrongful conviction suits over the past 10 years.
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City attorneys reject constitutional rights violation claims of convicted murderers
City attorneys are rejecting a motion by lawyers for Gabriel Solache and Arturo DeLeon-Reyes, convicted of a 1998 double murder, for a summary judgment in their wrongful conviction case on charges that the city’s policies and practices violated their constitutional rights (Monell claims) in their alleged wrongful prosecution.
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Bring federal power to bear on 'criminals-over-victims perversion' in Chicago, says 'Crooked City' author
Trump’s announcement that he will pick former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as U.S. Attorney General could be just what Chicago needs to reverse some of the wreckage done by the anti-police radicalism among the city’s top officials, wrote former Chicago FOP spokesman, Martin Preib, in his column “Crooked City.”