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    Little hope of release for more than 160 Illinois juvenile offenders

    By Emily Hoerner and Jeanne Kuang | May 6, 2018

    Across the country, juvenile offenders are being released from prison based on recognition they are not as mature as adults. In Illinois, many who commit crimes as teenagers are still likely destined to die in custody.

    Andrés Arias and family

    Colombian former official, seeking political asylum, faces extradition

    By Jeanne Kuang | April 4, 2018

    A Colombian former official says the U.S. promised help getting political asylum. Instead, he faces extradition without an asylum hearing.

    Burge squad gone, but the cases live on

    By Mari Cohen | December 10, 2017

    Demond Weston has been saying he was tortured into a confession since 1992. Nobody listened then; and decades later, determining truth is a much greater task.

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    For Hamlet, to be or not to be guilty — that is the question

    One of the intriguing features of the 2019 Chicago Humanities Festival, for me at least, was “Please, Continue (Hamlet)”—an interactive play with twelve jurors selected randomly from the audience to sit in judgment of a defendant named Hamlet, who stands accused of murdering his girlfriend Ophelia’s father, Polonius.

    Family urges Kim Foxx: Review conviction of man based on blind eyewitness

    Supporters and family of a man serving a 76-year sentence for murder based on testimony from an eyewitness the judge did not know was legally blind called on State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and her office to overturn his conviction at a press conference Monday.

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