Injustice Watch (https://www.injusticewatch.org/news/page/2/)
Despite a special prosecutor’s finding that Demond Weston’s torture claims were “unsubstantiated,” a judge agreed with the prosecutor’s motion to vacate his conviction for two 1990 shootings.
A Cook County judge granted a certificate of innocence Monday for Ieliot Jackson, who spent nearly eight years in prison for a 2009 drug sale.
Criminal justice experts offered several explanations for the 13 outliers, from missing evidence to stringent DNA testing laws and small prison populations.
For many prisoners seeking to overturn their convictions, the right to DNA evidence testing exists in theory but not in practice. Iowa is among 13 U.S. states where no prisoner has ever successfully used DNA testing to win exoneration.
The appeals court ruled that Jackie Wilson, who was convicted of the 1982 robbery and murder of two Chicago Police officers, was tortured into confessing and should received a new trial.
The officers were among 22 active St. Louis police officers whose Facebook posts extolling violence, using dehumanizing language, or expressing bias against certain groups were included in the Plain View Project.
Isaac Williams testified Monday that he–not Ieliot Jackson–sold heroin to an undercover police officer in 2009. Jackson hopes Williams’s testimony will help him obtain a certificate of innocence for the drug charges that sent him to prison for nearly eight years.
In a wealthy neighborhood of ranches thirty miles east of Los Angeles, a home was broken into in the early morning hours on a June night in 1983 and three members of the family, along with a family friend, were brutally killed.
After criticisms about diversity among the associate judges last year, the Circuit Court of Cook County elected several people of color to the bench, but no Hispanic finalists made the cut.
In June, 1980, a Lake County, Illinois jury sentenced a truck driver named Robert M. Kubat, who had been in and out of prison for years, to death after convicting him of the murder of Lydia C. Hyde, 63.