The city of Chicago is poised to settle a major wrongful conviction case involving the police framing of the so-called 'Marquette Park Four.'
It is going to cost the city $50 million to make things right for the Marquette Park Four : Charles Johnson, LaRod Styles, Troshawn McCoy and Lashawn Ezel, who were exonerated in 2017.
The four were convicted of a 1995 double murder and robbery of two men at a South Side car sales business.The city will be responsible for $21 million, and insurance policies will cover the remaining $29 million."The plaintiff spent a total of 73 years in prison. This settlement equates to $685,000 per year of custody.
Civil rights attorney Andrew M. Stroth, who started the Truth Hope and Justice Initiative, said the city needs to do more to assess risk in these types of cases and settle them more quickly. "Taxpayers should be outraged because there's been hundreds of millions of dollars wasted on litigating these cases. And there's hundreds of millions in the pipeline today," Stroth said.
This proposed settlement next heads to the full City Council on Wednesday, where there could be more questions. But, based on the risk of going to trial and having it cost the city even more, the settlement is expected to be approved.
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