Juror believes Innocence Case Cops Should Be Prosecuted
A juror who voted against awarding millions of dollars to Michael Evans, an Illinois man who spent 27 years in prison before DNA-testing freed him, said he believes police officers falsified and bungled so many elements of the original case that criminal charges should be brought against some of them. NATASHA KORECKI of the Chicago Sun Times.
The verdict in Evans' case came just weeks after the release of a report alleging that police torture, evidence fabrication, and witness coercion was systematic among the same general group of officers during the 1970s and 1980s according to ABC 7 and DAVID GIALANELLA of the Chicago Defender.