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Bill on Pritzker’s desk would boost state payments to the wrongfully convicted Original

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By Chip Mitchell Verified
| Chicago Sun-Times Verified
A bill awaiting Gov. JB Pritzker’s signature could boost state payments to wrongfully incarcerated people and, for the first time, make children eligible for the compensation. The legislation would hike the maximum payout to $50,000 for each year spent behind bars and $25,000 per year on probation or parole, or under an order to register as a sex offender.
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New book finds entrenched Chicago police racism behind Cook County’s wrongful convictions

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By Chip Mitchell Verified
| WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL) Verified
Cook County is known as the wrongful-conviction capital of America. The National Registry of Exonerations includes 215 murder cases that have been cleared here since 1989 — far more than in any other U.S. county. Brown University sociologist Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve is out next week with a book about them called “Crime Fictions.” Van Cleve writes that wrongful convictions stem from something more pernicious than shoddy law enforcement.
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Man’s bid for a retrial in boy’s murder hinges on ex-Chicago cop’s alleged ties to Gitmo torture Original

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By Chip Mitchell Verified
| Chicago Sun-Times Verified
A man who says Chicago police beat him into confessing to the 1992 murder of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis is a step closer to finding out whether he’ll get a new trial. One of Anthony Garrett’s attorneys battled a Cook County prosecutor in closing arguments Monday afternoon at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse. The attorney, Jennifer Blagg, argued that retired Detective Richard Zuley, 79, coordinated her client’s torture.
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