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Bernard Williams was 17 years old when he was convicted of murder for a 1996 killing. He spent 23 years in prison for a crime he claims he didn’t commit.
Now Williams is suing the city of Chicago and several of the Chicago police investigators who helped wrongfully convict him, according to a federal lawsuit filed this month.
The complaint alleges that detectives with the Chicago Police Department’s Area Four suppressed evidence, manipulated witnesses and fabricated things like a confession to seal Williams’ fate. It claims officers also beat and psychologically abused his co-defendant DeAngelo Johnson during interrogation, coercing Johnson to make a false confession that implicated Williams as his accomplice in the murder.
Fri, 02/26/2021 - 12:45pm admin
Justice David K. Overstreet and the Illinois Supreme Court recently announced the appointment of Timothy D. Denny as a Resident Circuit Judge for Union County in the First Judicial Circuit.
Denny is being appointed to fill the vacancy created by the election of Judge Mark M. Boie to the Fifth District Appellate Court in November 2020.
The appointment takes effect on March 1, 2021, and will conclude on December 5, 2022, when the vacancy will be filled by the winner of the November 2022 general election.
“I am pleased to find an experienced and well-respected attorney in Mr. Denny, who grew up in Union County and came back to the area after law school to live, work, and raise his family,” Justice Overstreet said in a news release.
Jacquelyn Greco pleads guilty to husband s 1979 murder, sentenced to 22 years Jacquelyn Greco
Updated 2/23/2021 7:35 PM
The 22-year sentence Jacquelyn Greco received Tuesday for her part in the 1979 murder of her husband wasn t the maximum allowed by law at the time.
But her guilty plea, which comes nearly 42 years after Carl Gaimari was found shot to death in the basement of the couple s Inverness home, grants satisfaction to his family that justice has been served.
We accept the plea agreement on behalf of Carl, his younger brother, John Gaimari, said during the sentencing hearing before Cook County Judge Steven Goebel. Now the world gets to hear his wife and the mother of his children admit guilt.