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Injustice Town: A Corrupt City, a Wrongly Convicted Man, and a Struggle for Freedom

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By Rick Tulsky
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. Feb. 2026. 432p. ISBN 9798897100422. $29.95. TRUE CRIME COPY ISBN Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist Tulsky unpacks the story of a 17-year-old Black teen, Lamonte McIntyre, who was wrongly convicted of a double murder in Kansas City in 1994. Because of ineffective counsel, overzealous prosecutors, corrupt police, and a biased judge (who once slept with one of the prosecutors), McIntyre spent 23 years behind bars. While in prison, McIntyre wrote to many organizations asking for help.
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Chicago's top lawyer defends vigorous, but losing, defense in Wrice civil case

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By Rick Tulsky
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As the Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago, I am compelled to correct the misleading record presented by Flint Taylor in his commentary. In May 1983, a jury found that the People of the State of Illinois had proven, beyond a reasonable doubt, that Mr. Stanley Wrice was guilty of rape and deviate sexual assault of a woman he and other men had encountered on the street late at night on September 8, 1982. The crime was monstrous and sadistic.
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The Stanley Wrice Jury Returns

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By Flint Taylor, Rick Tulsky
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Just before the City of Chicago, apparently with Mayor Lightfoot’s blessing, took the Stanley Wrice case to trial last month, I wrote that it was still not too late for the city to offer a fair settlement to compensate Wrice for his brutal torture and coerced confession. The mayor stood, I wrote,  “at a legal and political crossroads; the question is whether she will stand with the torturers or torture victims.
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