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| Former Police Lt. Faces 45 Years in Prison
Former police Lieutenant Jon Burge, 60, was arrested in mid-October 2008 on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Burge is accused of lying about his role in and knowledge of torturing African American murder suspects in Chicago throughout the 1980s. The accusation of Burge’ s perjury and former policemen’ s misconduct came to light in a 2006 report compiled by Cook County prosecutors. In this report, authorities revealed that Chicago police employed during the 1970s and 1980s regularly beat and tortured a number of African American suspects in an effort to elicit their confessions. Many of these alleged torture sessions led to hundreds of convictions and death row sentences. However,north faces on sale, the recent reports of police misconduct influenced the then-Governor of Chicago, George Ryan, to pardon or commute the sentences of 168 inmates. An Example of Wrongful Convictions: The Case of Madison Hobley One of the many wrongful convictions that came out of Burge’ s illegal actions was the conviction of Madison Hobley, a 46-year old African American, who was suspected of setting a fire in 1987 that killed seven people, including his wife and daughter. According to Hobley, Burge and three other detectives “ bagged” Hobley. “ Bagging” is an act of torture in which an object— in this case a typewriter— is used to cover a person’ s head to prevent him from breathing. During this interrogation, Burge and his fellow officers alleged that Hobley confessed to the crime. False Testimonies Led to Wrongful Conviction While Hobley has always denied giving such a confession, Burge testified that a confession occurred. Burge’ s testimony, along with that of his fellow detectives, directly led to Hobley’ s conviction and death row sentence. In 2003,cheap visvim shoes, after spending 13 years on death row, Hobley was pardoned by Ryan and, subsequently, filed a civil rights case against the Chicago police department. During these proceedings,headphones bose, Burge testified that he and his fellow detectives never tortured Madison Hobley in an effort to force his confession. Multiple Innocent Men Set Free Hobley ultimately won his case. He and other wrongfully convicted and/or tortured inmates have been awarded over $20 million in damages,north face outlet sale, which are to be paid out by the city of Chicago. Although the statute of limitations for charging Burges with torture and police misconduct is up, prosecutors plan on charging him with one count of perjury and two counts of obstruction of justice. If convicted, Burges faces up to 45 years in prison. Topics related articles： tod 4722 canada 6157 abercrombie fitch men 1199 |
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