Thomas Sierra was 19-years-old when he was wrongly put behind bars for more than half of his life. CHICAGO – The parade of once-young victims speaking out against gross Chicago police misconduct grew one stronger today as Thomas Sierra, a man who spent more than half his life wrongfully behind bars, sued the City of… Read More
By Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader Photo by Rich Hein, Chicago Sun-Times On Monday, April 23, within hours of Democratic state rep Anthony Deluca filing a bill to amend Illinois’s Freedom of Information law, a crescendo of opposition arose from civil rights lawyers and government transparency advocates. The amendment would’ve made misconduct complaints against police officers… Read More
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… Read More
This month, the Supreme Court decided Kisela v. Hughes, a case that makes it even more difficult to hold police officers accountable for unlawfully shooting the people they are supposed to serve and protect. Police officers are almost never meaningfully investigated, much less disciplined, by their fellow law enforcement agencies for shooting people. And they’re even… Read More
Police Fabricated Evidence, Coerced a False Confession From the 14-Year-Old, & Intimidated Witnesses to Frame the Youth CHICAGO, April 12, 2018 – After spending his adolescence and almost entire adulthood wrongfully imprisoned, Adam Gray today filed a federal lawsuit against eight former Chicago police officers (or their estates), a former fire marshal and a former… Read More
