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Lamonte McIntyre freed from prison, 23 years after questionable conviction
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Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark Dupree dropped the charges against McIntyre on Friday afternoon in the middle of a hearing to win McIntyre a new trial.
Miranda ‘loophole’: CA police use gang enforcers to win cellmate confessions
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Prosecutors in six California counties have used paid informants to question prisoners for years, and have fought off efforts by civil rights groups to limit the practice. The informants, enforcers for a feared gang, have various tricks to win statements, even in some instances making their cellmates fear for their lives if they do not talk. Now, the ACLU has turned to the courts to halt the practice.
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Brocton Lockwood, judge and mole in Cook County corruption case, dies
The retired judge from Southern Illinois wore a wire in Chicago in the 1970s and 1980s to aid Operation Greylord, a federal investigation into Cook County’s judicial corruption.
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No African American candidates chosen as Cook County judges add 16 to bench
Cook County’s new group of associate judges includes candidates whose backgrounds are Greek, Asian, Hispanic, Jewish, and more. But not one of the 16 judges already selected are African-American. The 17th seat, still to be filled, will go to one of two black men — leaving black women excluded.
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The victim was not dead; he was in New Jersey