State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s Conviction Integrity Unit hasn’t exonerated anyone in her 10 months on the job, and she has done little to confront more than a dozen coercion allegations against a former Chicago police detective and his partners. The post Cook County’s new prosecutor has weakened an already broken system for freeing the innocent appeared first on Injustice Watch.| Injustice Watch
Still in prison after 18 years despite the flimsy evidence of his guilt, Kevin Jackson tore open the letter from the Cook County conviction integrity unit — a squad in the prosecutor’s office set up to dig into cases such as his and free the wrongfully convicted. He was filled with hope prosecutors in the […] The post Cook County’s conviction integrity unit repeatedly denied freedom to incarcerated people who were later cleared appeared first on Injustice Watch.| Injustice Watch