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It's time for a bias check
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It's time for a bias check
Eric Smokes, 56, and David Warren, 53, were teenagers when they were arrested for the fatal mugging of 71-year-old Jean Casse on W. 52nd St, which unfolded moments after the ball had dropped on New Year's Eve.
Prosecutors are using a law that went into effect in 2021, allowing them to file a motion to vacate a conviction if they have information that a prisoner might be innocent or “erroneously convicted.”
The Ohio Innocence Project, housed at the University of Cincinnati, says wrongful convictions and imprisonment can happen for a number of reasons, but the basic reason being “because we are human.”
In 2002, Edgar Naranjo was a 26-year-old drug addict desperate for money. He hatched a plan to rob a flea market vendor he figured had a large supply of cologne he could unload for cash. His haphazard scheme went badly awry. After Naranjo and a teenage accomplice broke into their target’s Northwest Side home, the vendor’s son, a Chicago police officer, shot and killed the younger intruder and ...