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    As Cook County Judge Coghlan seeks retention, concerns over lawsuit, rulings

    By Mari Cohen and Rick Tulsky | June 28, 2018

    Cook County judge Matthew Coghlan is among 62 Cook County judges who will ask voters to retain them for new terms in the November election. But Coghlan has some issues, including a current lawsuit contending he conspired with a disgraced Chicago police detective to frame two men for murder.

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    “Credible” evidence Burge detectives beat teen into confessing, board finds

    By Mari Cohen | December 13, 2017

    In 1990, high school senior Demond Weston was arrested for taking part in a gang’s shooting spree. On Wednesday, an Illinois commission finally gave credit to his claim he was tortured into confessing by police.

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    Unrequited Innocence

    One has already been executed. Others remain on death row. Some remain locked up but are no longer on death row. And some were released from prison, but still have convictions on their record.

    They all have one thing in common: None of them has been declared innocent, no matter how strongly the evidence points in that direction.

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    Why do defendants plead guilty to crimes they didn't commit? A national team of journalists investigates.
    Injustice Watch is partnering with other news organizations to examine why innocent people plead guilty to crimes they did not commit. If this has happened to you before, help us investigate by filling out our form.

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    Ha’im Al Martin Sharif: As evidence undercut, a deal he could not refuse

    This story is the eleventh in a series, Unrequited Innocence, that looks at cases where people were sentenced to die and have not been exonerated despite significant evidence of innocence.

    Eddie Lee Howard Jr.: Remains on death row based on dubious “bite marks” testimony

    This story is the tenth in a series, Unrequited Innocence, that looks at cases where people were sentenced to die and have not been exonerated despite significant evidence of innocence.

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