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/PRNewswire/ -- Jenner & Block is proud to announce that Partner Andrew W. Vail was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers at the Colleges annual...

CHICAGO, Oct. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Jenner & Block is proud to announce that Partner Andrew W. Vail was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers at the Colleges

CHICAGO (AP) -- What started with three unarmed men attempting to burglarize a Southwest Side electronics store one night in April 2012 ended in a hail of

/PRNewswire/ -- Jenner & Block is proud to announce that Partner Andrew W. Vail was inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers at the Colleges annual...

Interrogatories are written questions about the facts of a case that any party in a lawsuit may ask a jury to answer separately from their verdict. Despite...

What started with three unarmed men attempting to burglarize a Southwest Side electronics store one night in April 2012 ended in a hail of gunfire from Chicago police officers as

Share Photo: (Photo : Thomas Timlen/Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)) Gov. J.B. Pritzker has signed a new law to ban Illinois cops from lying to kids under interrogation. Signed on July 15, the law makes Illinois the first state in America to make the deceptive tactic illegal. Police officers in Illinois may no longer fake evidence or provide false promises to children under 18 years old who are brought in for questioning, especially juvenile suspects, to make them confess. If the...

Illinois bans practice of lying to minors during police interrogations   Image from Alexander Oganezov / Shutterstock.com Illinois is now the only state in the country that prohibits police from lying to minors during interrogations. Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed into law Thursday a measure that bans deceptive tactics, such as knowingly communicating false facts about evidence or promising leniency without authorization, when questioning individuals who are under the age of 18. The law, which tak...

/ Terrill Swift, who spent 15 years in prison after being coerced into confessing to a crime he did not commit, speaks at a news conference Thursday in favor of a law that bans the deceptive interrogation of minors by law enforcement. Terrill Swift spent 15 years in prison, convicted of a rape and murder which DNA evidence later proved he did not commit. On Thursday, he appeared alongside lawmakers and criminal justice reform advocates in support of a bill signed by Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker...

Illinois bans law enforcement from lying to minors during interrogations Illinois has in recent years uncovered at least 100 wrongful convictions based on false confessions, 31 of them involving people under 18 years of age. Credit: fergregory - stock.adobe.com Author: Staff Updated: 4:40 PM EDT July 15, 2021 WASHINGTON — Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill Thursday making Illinois the first state to ban law enforcement officers from lying to minors dur...