Michael Tillman will receive $5.375 million in the settlement. He spent more than 23 years in prison for a 1986 rape and murder, and said he confessed to the crime only because detectives under Burge beat him and threatened to kill him, along with other torture.
Date: Jul 26, 2012
Category: Business
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Police torture cases from Daley era vex Chicago's Rahm Emanuel
The whole stewpot of police torture cases is simmering anew because a federal judge recently ruled that Daley can be deposed as a defendant in a civil suit brought by Michael Tillman, who was exonerated and released from prison in 2010 after serving 23 years. Mr. Tillmans case is one of more than 1