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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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