Chicago City Council $50 million settlement with men wrongfully convicted
The above video is from a previous report.CHICAGO â The Chicago City Council approved a $50 million settlement with four men who were wrongfully convicted of a 1995 double murder and spent 20 years in prison before they were cleared.Charles Johnson, Larod Styles, Troshawn McCoy, and Lashawn Ezell, the so-called 'Marquette Park Four,' were between 15 and 19 at the time when they confessed to taking part in the robbery and murders. But they said their confessions were coerced.
'Charles, Larod, Lashawn, and Troshawn are among the scores of kids who the Chicago Police Department has targeted for false arrest and coercive interrogations over the years, leading to Chicago's reputation as the False Confession Capital of the country,' said Alex Van Brunt, Johnson's attorney and the director of the Illinois office of the MacArthur Justice Center, in a statement after the approval of the settlement.
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