Jon Burge Police Torture Trial Delayed Because Of Cancer
Former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge, recently diagnosed with prostate cancer, has won a third delay of his trial, over a prosecutor's objections....
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Alton Logan Sues City, Burge Over Wrongful Murder Conviction
Chicago Public Radio | Tony Arnold | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago
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A Chicago man who spent 26 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit is now suing the city....
State Commission To Probe Burge Police Torture Cases, But No Money For Staff
Chicago Public Radio | Rob Wildeboer | Posted 09.11.2009 | Chicago
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Imprisoned men who say they were tortured by Former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge have a new venue to air their cases. ...
Jon Burge Trial Date Set
AP | Posted 08.22.2009 | Chicago
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CHICAGO (AP) -- A federal judge has scheduled a January trial for former Chicago police supervisor Jon Burge, who's accused of lying under oath about ...
Another Burge Torture Case Crumbles: 2 Convicted In 1988 Murder To Go Free
Chicago Sun-Times | RUMMANA HUSSAIN | Posted 08.07.2009 | Chicago
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The Illinois Attorney General's Office today dropped charges against two men convicted of five murders two decades ago....
Alleged Police Torture Victim Cortez Brown Granted New Trial After 18 Years Behind Bars
AP | Posted 06.22.2009 | Chicago
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CHICAGO (AP) -- An inmate who claimed police tortured him into confessing to two murders he didn't commit was granted a new trial Friday after 18 year...
Cortez Brown: I Confessed To Murder To End Torture By Police
AP | Posted 06.18.2009 | Chicago
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CHICAGO — An inmate seeking a new murder trial claims he was tortured so badly by Chicago police officers in the 1990s that he would have signed...
Jon Burge Won't Testify At Cortez Brown Trial: Judge
AP | Posted 06.12.2009 | Chicago
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CHICAGO (AP) -- Former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge won't testify at a hearing for an inmate who wants a new trial and claims he was tortured in...
Alleged Torture Cop Burge Wants Trial Moved Out Of Chicago
AP | Posted 05.31.2009 | Chicago
Attorneys for former Chicago police commander Jon Burge have asked a judge to move his obstruction of justice and perjury trial out of the city becaus...
Judge: Alleged Torture Cop Burge Can Be Subpoenaed To Testify
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.30.2009 | Chicago
UPDATE 1:40 P.M. A judge granted permission, without any objection from prosecutors, to Cortez's lawyers to subpoena Jon Burge to testify in court, t...
Special Prosecutor Named For Burge Police Torture Cases
AP | Posted 05.08.2009 | Chicago
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CHICAGO (AP) -- One public defender says he was surprised that a Cook County judge today ordered a special state's attorney to prosecute a batch of po...
Burge Police Torture Cases Ruling Soon: WBEZ
Chicago Public Radio | Posted 05.08.2009 | Chicago
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A Cook County judge today is expected to make a ruling on several cases related to police torture. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says the cas...
Quinn Doesn't Plan To Pardon Alleged Burge Torture Victims
Chicago Defender | Kathy Chaney | Posted 03.21.2009 | Chicago
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Alleged torture victims of former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge who pleaded for pardons by former Gov. Rod Blagojevich days before his removal from o...
Government Widens Chicago Police Torture Probe: Report
Chicago Tribune | Steve Mills and Jeff Coen | Posted 03.07.2009 | Chicago
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Federal prosecutors continue to investigate decades-old allegations that Chicago police routinely tortured murder suspects, focusing on a half-dozen d...
Lawsuit Seeks To Stop Police Union From Paying For Alleged Torture Cop Burge's Defense
Chicago Tribune | Carolyn Starks | Posted 02.02.2009 | Chicago
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A current and a former Chicago police officer are asking a judge to stop the Fraternal Order of Police from paying legal fees for former Cmdr. Jon Bur...
Attorney General Madigan Moving Burge Police Torture Cases To Cook County State's Attorney
Chicago Sun-Times | John Conroy and Maurice Possley | Posted 01.22.2009 | Chicago
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After five years of fighting to keep Chicago Police torture cases from being reopened, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is seeking to shift resp...
Studs' Last Stand
Curtis Black | Posted 12.05.2008 | Chicago
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Studs Terkel spent his life giving voice to the concerns of the voiceless, and it's a mark of his consistency that in his final days he stood up for men who were denied fair trials decades ago.
Burge Pleads Not Guilty
Posted 11.27.2008 | Chicago
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UPDATE Carol Marin reports that the Fraternal Order of Police is rumored to be paying for Burge's criminal defense. Burge lawyer Bill Gamboney said o...
Daley Sarcastic About Burge Torture
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.23.2008 | Chicago
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Mayor Daley on Thursday issued a sarcastic blanket apology for the alleged torture of suspects by former Chicago Police Lt. Jon Burge. "The best way ...
Jon Burge Arrested In Torture Cases
AP | Mike Robinson | Posted 11.21.2008 | Chicago
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Scroll down for video of Mayor Daley's response, the alleged victims speaking out, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald explaining the charges and more ba...
Jon Burge, The Olympics and Torture in Chicago
Monroe Anderson | Posted 09.19.2008 | Chicago
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In a quixotic quest for justice, a civil rights group is out to expose America's third-largest city as, according to an attorney, "the torture capital of the world."
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