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- Cook County State’s Attorney Richard Devine discusses deals with a handful of inmates with long-standing claims that they were tortured into confessing by Burge and his detectives. The inmates are Derrick King, Stanley Howard, Andrew Maxwell and Aaron Patterson.
www.chicagotribune.com/2018/09/19/jon-burge-and-chicagos-legacy-of-police-torture/
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Sep 11, 2019 · Decades after evidence first emerged that Chicago police detectives were repeatedly winning confessions through coercion and torture, the Cook County criminal justice system struggles to respond to the complaints of hundreds of defendants that they were coerced years ago into falsely confessing.
- Abigail Blachman
Mar 14, 2024 · Wilson was convicted after he said he was tortured into confessing by Chicago police officers operating under infamous Area 2 Commander Jon Burge. In a 2021 lawsuit, Wilson wrote that he was repeatedly beaten and electroshocked by Burge and others.
- Matt Masterson
Mar 16, 2023 · Sean Tyler and Reginald Henderson said they were tortured into false confessions nearly 30 years ago by corrupt cops trained under disgraced former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge in 1994....
Mar 15, 2024 · This confession, extracted under duress, was obtained by an assistant Cook County state’s attorney and a court reporter, who were purportedly aware of the torture Wilson endured.
- Shannon Dawson
Jan 25, 2013 · Wrice, an inmate who says Chicago police officers tortured him into confessing to a brutal rape can present evidence of coercion that was denied at trial, the Illinois Supreme Court decided on Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 in a ruling that could have implications for as many as 20 other inmates seeking similar appeals.
Mar 14, 2024 · The courts found Wilson was tortured into confessing by police officers under former sergeant Jon Burge. | 2 ex-prosecutors on trial after man wrongfully convicted of killing 2 Chicago...
