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$17 Million Payout for Yet Another Wrongful Conviction in Chicago

Loaded on Dec. 5, 2018 by Christopher Zoukis published in Prison Legal News December, 2018, page 28
Filed under: Police Misconduct, Wrongful Conviction. Location: Illinois.

by Christopher Zoukis

On June 29, 2018, a federal jury awarded over $17 million to a Chicago man who spent 21 years in a maximum-security prison for a murder he did not commit.

Jacques Rivera, now 52, was convicted of the 1988 gangland killing of 16-year-old Felix Valentin. The only ...

 

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