Guevara and other Chicago police officers used the same jailhouse informant to frame five innocent men CHICAGO – In what has become an avalanche of suits exposing the misconduct of Chicago Police Detective Reynaldo Guevara and the immeasurable harm that he and his colleagues have inflicted on citizens of Chicago, today a 19th person exonerated… Read More
82 convictions overturned in last 3 years as Members of Watts’ Team Remain with CPD and Taxpayers Continue to Pay Their Salaries CHICAGO – Eight more men framed by disgraced former Chicago police sergeant Ronald Watts and members of Watts’ tactical team sued the current and former cops and the City of Chicago late this… Read More
Close Colleagues of Notorious Police Torturer Jon Burge Sued for Frame-Up of Youth CHICAGO – A man framed for murder at age 15 by close colleagues of notorious torturer Cmdr. Jon Burge today sued the City of Chicago for a beating and false confession to murder forced out of him by the Chicago Police detectives. … Read More
Lawsuits allege code of silence and come in the wake of the first mass exoneration in Chicago history This morning fifteen men whose convictions were overturned each filed separate lawsuits against the City of Chicago, high-ranking supervisors with the Chicago Police Department (CPD), recently imprisoned former Chicago police sergeant Ronald Watts, and members of Watts’… Read More
Jacques Rivera spent 21 years wrongfully imprisoned after he was framed by notorious Chicago Detective Reynaldo Guevara. Jacques Rivera hunched forward at the courtroom table Friday and pressed his forehead to the fingertips of his folded hands, whispering a prayer as the jury filed in. When the verdict was read — more than $17 million… Read More
Krystal O’Connell lost her 17-month-old son in accidental death while cared for by a babysitter, then suffered the additional trauma of wrongful imprisonment DENVER – An Alamosa County woman who was wrongly imprisoned for a decade after her infant died in an accident, today filed a suit in federal court against the cop and caseworker… Read More
Ariel Gomez was 17 years old when he was beaten and framed By Chicago Det. Reynaldo Guevara & colleagues CHICAGO – Ariel Gomez was a 17-year-old with no criminal record when he was beaten by notorious Chicago police officer Reynaldo Guevara and framed for a murder he did not commit. The shooting death for which… Read More
Police Fabricated Witness Identification and Other Evidence to Frame then 26-Year Old for Assault and Burglary After spending almost 16 years wrongfully imprisoned for crimes he didn’t commit, today a Worcester, MA man, Natale “Nat” Cosenza, filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Worcester and eight current or former Worcester 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
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
