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Chicago City Council to consider historic $50 million settlement for false confessions allegedly...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 days agoCHICAGO — Chicago aldermen are set to consider the city’s largest police misconduct settlement ever:...
Netflix's 'Hit Man' is based on a true story. Here's what the movie gets right and wrong about Gary...
Business Insider· 6 days ago"Hit Man" is based on a 2001 news article about Gary Johnson, a phony hitman. Here's how accurate...
Chicago City Council OKs $50 million settlement with 4 men wrongfully convicted of 1995 murders
CBS News· 19 hours agoThe Chicago City Council approved a $50 million settlement with four men who were wrongfully...
Chicago settles wrongful conviction lawsuits for $50 million
Courthouse News Service· 1 day agoThe men were between the ages of 15 and 19 at the time of their arrests and claimed Chicago police...
Amanda Knox: A Complete Timeline of Her Italian Murder Case and Trial
Biography via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAmerican student Amanda Knox was accused of murdering her roommate in Italy in 2007. Here are the...
Judge tosses lawsuit filed for man wrongfully convicted of Bothell murder | HeraldNet.com
Everett Herald· 3 days agoSimmers in 2021 sued the city of Bothell, King County and several officers and detectives involved...
Attorney from West Memphis 3 case breaks 30 years of silence in A Harvest of Innoncence
Benton Courier· 5 days agoAfter 30 years of silence, Attorney Dan Stidham, who represented Jessie Misskelley in the West...
City approves $50M settlement to ‘Marquette Park Four,’ men wrongfully convicted in 1995 double...
WGN Chicago via Yahoo News· 18 hours agoCHICAGO — The city council approved Wednesday a $50 million settlement to four Chicago men...
LZ Granderson: Praising the Jim Crow era? That's a red flag
Greensboro News & Record· 2 hours agoJim Crow was not the problem. Jim Crow was meant to be the solution. The problem was Rutherford B. Hayes winning the Electoral College but losing the popular vote in 1876. To get over the hump ...
Rule curtailing lobbyist donations to Chicago mayors stalled amid Johnson pushback
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 19 hours agoAn ethics ordinance aimed at restricting lobbyists’ donations to Chicago mayors was blocked...