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Two Exonerated Illinois Prisoners Win Settlements 
Totaling $14.5 Million
Article • August 1, 2025 • from PLN August, 2025
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment
Two Exonerated Illinois Prisoners Win Settlements Totaling $14.5 Million by Chuck Sharman A pair of former Illinois prisoners, each exonerated after spending 23 years behind bars for crimes they did not commit, accepted a total of $14.5 million in settlements from the City of Rockford, which voted in April 2025 …
Wrongfully Imprisoned for 26 Years, Chicago Brothers Sue Cop Who Framed Them
Article • December 1, 2023 • from PLN December, 2023
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Wrongful Imprisonment, Actual Innocence/Claim of Innocence, False Statements, Testimony or Documents
to $200,000 each in state compensation for their wrongful imprisonment. With the aid of attorneys from Loevy & Loevy in Chicago, they have also filed a civil rights suit in federal court for the Northern ...
Golbert v. Smith, IL, Complaint, Wrongfully Incarcerated, 2023
Brief • January 19, 2023
Filed under: Wrongful Imprisonment, Juveniles
Golbert v. Smith, IL, Complaint, Wrongfully Incarcerated, 2023 Case: 1:23-cv-00300 Document #: 1 Filed: 01/19/23 Page 1 of 32 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION CHARLES GOLBERT, Cook County Public Guardian, on behalf of J.B., K.J., M.J., D.M., J.R., J.S., …
Brzowski v. Sigler, IL, Court Order, Wrongful Imprisonment, 2021
Brief • September 21, 2021
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Wrongful Imprisonment, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, False Imprisonment, Emotional Distress
Brzowski v. Sigler, IL, Court Order, Wrongful Imprisonment, 2021 Case: 1:17-cv-09339 Document #: 205 Filed: 09/21/21 Page 1 of 21 PageID #:3955 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN ...
Mitchell v. City of Chicago, IL, Settlement, Wrongful Conviction, 2021
Brief • July 27, 2021
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, False Statements, Testimony or Documents, False Documents, False Confessions
Mitchell v. City of Chicago, IL, Settlement, Wrongful Conviction, 2021 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION KEHINDA MITCHELL, v. Plaintiff, CITY OF CHICAGO, Chicago Police Detectives MICHAEL MCDERMOTT, ANDY JONES, KEVIN GLYNN and JACK WILKINS, Youth Officer NAPOLEON STEVENSON, and Officer K. …
Brisco v. Stinar, IL, Settlement, False Arrest & Imprisonment, 2021
Brief • April 27, 2021
Filed under: Wrongful Imprisonment, False Arrest, False Statements, Testimony or Documents, False Statements/Perjury, False Imprisonment
Brisco v. Stinar, IL, Settlement, False Arrest & Imprisonment, 2021 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION CORNELL BRISCO, Plaintiff, V, ) ) ) ) CASE NO. 19-CV-7233 ) CHICAGO POLICE OFFICERS VINCENT STINAR, STAR NO. 4017, LENNY PIERRI STAR NO. 10956 & …
Brzowski v. Sigler, IL, Judgment, Wrongful Imprisonment, 2020
Brief • August 6, 2020
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Wrongful Imprisonment, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, False Imprisonment, Emotional Distress
Brzowski v. Sigler, IL, Judgment, Wrongful Imprisonment, 2020 1:17-cv-09339 ILND 450 (Rev.Case: 04/29/2016) Judgment in a Civil Document Action #: 169 Filed: 08/06/20 Page 1 of 1 PageID #:2900 ...
Brisco v. Stinar, IL, Complaint, False Arrest & Imprisonment, 2019
Brief • November 1, 2019
Filed under: Wrongful Imprisonment, False Arrest, False Statements, Testimony or Documents, False Statements/Perjury, False Imprisonment
Brisco v. Stinar, IL, Complaint, False Arrest & Imprisonment, 2019 Case: 1:19-cv-07233 Document #: 1 Filed: 11/01/19 Page 1 of 5 PageID #:1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION CORNEL BRISCO Plaintiff, vs. CHICAGO POLICE OFFICERS VINCENT STINAR, STAR NO. 4017 LENNY PIERRI, STAR …
Mitchell v. City of Chicago, IL, Complaint, Wrongful Conviction, 2018
Brief • November 5, 2018
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, False Statements, Testimony or Documents, False Confessions
imprisonment. During his long wrongful imprisonment, Plaintiff was detained in harsh and dangerous conditions in prisons. He suffered extreme physical and emotional harm from witnessing violence against other ...
$9 Million Settlement for Illinois Man Wrongly Imprisoned for Murder
Article • July 6, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
Filed under: Settlements, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment
$9 Million Settlement for Illinois Man Wrongly Imprisoned for Murder by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In October 2017, a $9 million settlement was reached in a lawsuit brought by an Illinois man who spent 15 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. The suit alleged law enforcement …
Brzowski v. Sigler, IL, Complaint, Wrongful Imprisonment, 2017
Brief • December 28, 2017
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Wrongful Imprisonment, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, False Imprisonment, Emotional Distress
Brzowski v. Sigler, IL, Complaint, Wrongful Imprisonment, 2017 Case: 1:17-cv-09339 Document #: 1 Filed: 12/28/17 Page 1 of 10 PageID #:1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT ...
Chicago Man Exonerated of Murder Awarded $13 Million after 22 Years in Prison
Article • December 5, 2017 • from PLN December, 2017
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, Pardons/Clemency
Chicago Man Exonerated of Murder Awarded $13 Million after 22 Years in Prison by Lonnie Burton by Lonnie Burton Following a trial that began on March 6, 2017, a federal jury awarded a former prisoner more than $13 million after he sued the City of Chicago, seven police officers and …
Kluppelberg v. Burge, IL, Release and Settlement Agreement, Wrongful Imprisonment, 2017
Brief • October 27, 2017
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Excessive Force, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, False Arrest, Excessive Force (Police)
Kluppelberg v. Burge, IL, Release and Settlement Agreement, Wrongful Imprisonment, 2017 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS EASTERN DIVISION JAMES KLUPPELBERG ...
$340,000 Awarded to Man Chicago Detective Falsely Claimed had Confessed to Murder
Article • February 21, 2017
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Wrongful Imprisonment, Police
$340,000 Awarded to Man Chicago Detective Falsely Claimed had Confessed to Murder by Leonard Robinson was arrested by Chicago police for battery. That charge was eventually dropped, but while he was held in jail for two days, then charged with killing his girlfriend's three-year-old son forty-one months earlier. He remained …
Illinois: DNA Evidence Exonerates One Man, Implicates Another
Article • January 10, 2017 • from PLN January, 2017
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, DNA Testing/Samples, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment
Illinois: DNA Evidence Exonerates One Man, Implicates Another by On September 28, 2016, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office announced charges against convicted murderer Osborne Wade, 42, in connection with the brutal sexual assault and murder of a child in 1992. The charges followed an extensive investigation by the State’s …
Illinois Man Falsely Convicted of Rape Released After 20 Years
Article • October 14, 2016
Filed under: Police Misconduct, DNA Testing/Samples, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment
Illinois Man Falsely Convicted of Rape Released After 20 Years by Matthew Clarke On March 9, 2015, the rape and kidnapping charges against Angel Gonzalez that had held him in prison for nearly 20 years were dismissed. He had been exonerated by DNA evidence. However, he was not immediately released …
Illinois: Exonerated Prisoner Calls $80,000 Award a Travesty, Retrial Ordered
Article • October 3, 2016 • from PLN October, 2016
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Judicial Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment
Illinois: Exonerated Prisoner Calls $80,000 Award a Travesty, Retrial Ordered by Gary Hunter Nathson E. Fields spent 18 years in prison due to a conveniently “lost” file that would have cleared him. Fields was a member of the El Rukn street gang when he was convicted of a double homicide …
Walker v. White, Amended complaint, wrongful conviction case, 2016
Filing • September 27, 2016
Filed under: Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment
and wrongful conviction of Plaintiff and his wrongful imprisonment, denying him his constitutional right to a fair trial, in violation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States ...
Federal Jury Awards $9 Million to Illinois Man Cleared of Rape He Was Convicted of as Teenager
Article • August 5, 2016
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Sex Offender Registration, Malicious Prosecution, DNA Testing/Samples, Good Time, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, Pardons/Clemency, Collateral consequences of prison, Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, Immigration, Due Process
Federal Jury Awards $9 Million to Illinois Man Cleared of Rape He Was Convicted of as Teenager by Alejandro Dominguez, who spent four years in prison for a rape he did not commit, was awarded $9 million by a federal jury after DNA evidence cleared him of the charges. Dominguez, …
HRDC Represents Former Illinois Prisoner in Wrongful Conviction Suit
Article • August 2, 2016 • from PLN August, 2016
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Prosecutor/Attorney General Misconduct, Malicious Prosecution, Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Imprisonment, PLN Litigation, False Arrest, PLN related
Walker. Walker, 39, a student at Fisk University in Tennessee prior to his wrongful imprisonment, filed a federal civil rights action on July 7, 2016 that accused current and former Chicago police officers ...
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