'Marquette Park 4' settlement is another sad example of the need for policing reform
Chicagoans see these cases over and over, shelling out millions for past misconduct that has sent innocent people to prison for years.
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Chicagoans see these cases over and over, shelling out millions for past misconduct that has sent innocent people to prison for years.
Arrested as teens, the four men were convicted in a 1995 double murder, but were exonerated in 2017 after new fingerprinting technology did not connect them to the scene.
Chicago aldermen approved one of the city’s largest police misconduct settlement awards in years Thursday, while also diving into an emotional debate about what the city owes newly arriving immigrants as longtime Black residents feel overlooked. The City Council approved a $25 million settlement award in a police misconduct case in which two men were wrongfully convicted of murdering a college ...
A City Council committee approved a $25 million settlement Monday in a Chicago police misconduct case involving two men wrongfully convicted of murdering a college basketball standout three decades ago, sending one of the city’s largest police misconduct settlement awards in recent years to a final vote this week. The Finance Committee advanced the massive settlement deal to the full City ...
The City Council is poised to take up a $25 million settlement proposal in a controversial police misconduct case involving two men whose murder convictions were overturned in the slaying of a college basketball standout in Chicago 30 years ago. Tyrone Hood and Wayne Washington sued the city separately in 2016, alleging police, including then-Detectives Kenneth Boudreau and John Halloran, ...