Former Hammond Cop Michael Solan Previously Framed Another Man, & Jury Issued a $9 Million verdict against the City
Chicago, IL – Two Lake County, IN men, wrongfully imprisoned for a combined 42 years following a 1989 rape, filed suit today against former officers from the Hammond Indiana Police Department and the Indiana State Police Laboratory for allegedly framing them for the crime until DNA evidence exonerated them.
According to the suit, police fabricated statements for jailhouse informants, conducted unduly suggestive photo-identification procedures with the victim in order to manipulate a wrongful identification of Mr. Pinkins, fabricated reports regarding forensic analysis of evidence, and withheld exculpatory evidence indicating that other individuals were responsible for the crimes. This law enforcement misconduct produced wrongful convictions which collectively spanned more than four decades in prison.
DNA evidence conclusively shows that Mr. Pinkins and Mr. Glenn did not rape the victim in this case and are entirely innocent of the charges that they were wrongfully convicted of committing. Roosevelt Glenn was wrongfully convicted in 1993 and sentenced to 36 years in prison. Mr. Glenn spent 17 years behind bars before he was paroled. He was finally exonerated on January 30, 2017.
Darryl Pinkins was wrongfully convicted in 1991 and sentenced to 75 years in prison. Mr. Pinkins was exonerated on April 25, 2016, having spent more than 25 years wrongfully imprisoned.
Glenn and Pinkins are represented by attorneys Arthur Loevy, Jon Loevy, Tara Thompson, Vince Field and Elliot Slosar of Loevy & Loevy Attorneys at Law. Glenn, Pinkins and their attorneys will discuss the new suit at a 12 pm, Wednesday, April 18th press conference at Loevy & Loevy, 311 N. Aberdeen St., 3rd Floor, Chicago.
Loevy & Loevy is one of the nation’s largest civil rights law firms, and over the past decade has won more multi-million dollar jury verdicts than any other civil rights law firm in the country. A copy of the suit, Roosevelt Glenn and Darryl Pinkins v. City of Hammond, IN, et al., is available here.
My son also was wrongfully ACCUSED.. please help the cops also had alot to do with it.
Hideous but true story of another “Wrongful Conviction” of innocent people! I have said it before, “It does not benefit anyone that innocent people should go to prison for no crime! Everyone that takes the “Oath” whether law enforcement or those that seek a career in law, you better have the highest of integrity to begin with and the integrity to uphold & preserve justice for its GLORY not yours! The truth comes eventually and now its compensation for Darryl & Glenn. This was not an error or mistake, it was purposely done! Those years they lost will never come back, but its another lesson to all of us that some so-called “Oath Takers” are just not ethical to begin with, they are the ones that should be punished to the highest extent of the law! Our system is deeply flawed with these people, it sets our Criminal Justice System back 500 years.
To Glenn & Darryl, I am always happy to see another EXONERATION of an innocent person! Now go and live your lives however you can, it’s another long road, but you guys can do it, stay out there, others that are also innocent are still in prisons across the states and they need to know there are exonerates who are willing to keep out-there the awareness of wrongful convictions, all innocent people in prison count too! When every single innocent person is exonerated & compensated, then maybe wrongful convictions will stop! Accountability hurts big!
I’ve always known this was a travesty, these men will never get the 42 years they spent back, never know what would have been like to watch their children grow up. Although they deserve compensation what price can you put on what they endured, the city of Hammond, Indiana is known in this region for its racist policing, you can count or your hands how many officers of different races are on there force. I just hope they know that retaliation is this cities MO. GOD;s speed and protection in letting Justice prevail.