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The tragedy that surrounds the Jacksonville teen murder defendant’s case appears to have at least one silver-lining. Delete the scoop?
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A federal jury Tuesday awarded $25 million to a suburban man who sued the city of Chicago after spending 16 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit. Delete the scoop?
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Today marks the end of a very long ordeal for four Chicago men who were unjustly convicted as teenagers. After 17 years, Michael Saunders, Harold Richardson, Vincent Thames and Terrill Swift—have finally been exonerated of the 1994 murder of Nina Glover. The State’s Attorney’s Office announced at a hearing today that they are dismissing the indictments against the four men. The decision follows a judge’s November 2011 order to vacate the four convictions. Delete the scoop?
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As of late December, Patrick Pursley, an Illinois inmate found guilty of first-degree murder in a 1993 attempted robbery and sentenced to life in prison, was waiting for results of a post-conviction ballistics test result that could exonerate him. So were Jenner & Block attorneys Andrew Vail, Robert Stauffer and Kyle Palazzolo and staff members of Northwestern University School of Law's Center on Wrongful Convictions. Delete the scoop?
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