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people from that grounded cruise ship sued for hundreds of millions of dollars because of their "psychological bruising" from a few dozen hours - I wonder how much psychological trauma 13 years on death row is worth.
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/02/06/43662.htmA prosecutor cannot get immunity from claims that he put an innocent man on death row by knowingly accepting a coerced confession, a federal judge ruled.
Ronald Kitchen, 43, spent half his life in prison, 13 of those years on death row, after confessing under duress to taking part in a quintuple murder.
He was questioned by former Chicago police detective Jon Burge, who was convicted in 2010 of lying about the torture of numerous black criminal suspects between the 1970s and 1980s to elicit forced confessions. Kitchen's conviction rested on his confession and the testimony of a witness, Willie Williams, who later admitted that he lied under oath.
people from that grounded cruise ship sued for hundreds of millions of dollars because of their "psychological bruising" from a few dozen hours - I wonder how much psychological trauma 13 years on death row is worth.
No amount of money would ever be enough. Mr Kitchen had better win in court: not every state compensates the falsely accused.
Terrible stuff... thanks for posting
Very little. Stuff like this happened before, and they were given very little.
I'd be surprised he gets seven figures.
A little over a million in Texas if all goes well, plus an annuity and a lot of education hours. Texas is surprisingly good about compensation, provided they don't kill you first.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_4570429.htmlFederal officials say they have two ex-Chicago area cops on record discussing a shocking torture and mutilation plan of a wealthy businessman they wanted to target for a real estate extortion plot.
According to the Wednesday court filing, Steven Mandell (formerly known as Steve Manning) and his accomplice, Gary Engel, discussed mutilating their victim's genitals -- "like slicing a banana split" -- psychologically torturing him and draining him of his blood, the Tribune reports.
The FBI recording was from an October 2012 conversation between the two men as they traded ideas on how to torture their unnamed victim in what the Sun-Times called a "purpose-built killing chamber" on the city's Northwest Side.
According to the Tribune, the men had planned to disguise themselves as federal marshals and then arrest the victim so they could torture him into handing over real estate before they killed him.
Both Mandell and Engel lost their jobs -- with the Chicago and Willow Springs, Ill. police forces, respectively -- in the 1980s after a similar extortion plot. According to CBS Chicago, Mandell had previously served 13 years on death row for the kidnap and murder of a truck company boss in 1990 but was released in 1998 when his case was overturned on appeal.
Mandell, 62, is set to go on trial next month, the Daily Mail reports. Engel was found hanged in his prison cell shortly after the two men were arrested in 2012.
Chump, that might indicate why Texas is so eager to put people on death row and get them "out the door", so to speak.
black site?
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...ans-black-siteThe Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.
The facility, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west side known as Homan Square, has long been the scene of secretive work by special police units. Interviews with local attorneys and one protester who spent the better part of a day shackled in Homan Square describe operations that deny access to basic cons utional rights.
Alleged police practices at Homan Square, according to those familiar with the facility who spoke out to the Guardian after its investigation into Chicago police abuse, include:
- Keeping arrestees out of official booking databases.
- Beating by police, resulting in head wounds.
- Shackling for prolonged periods.
- Denying attorneys access to the “secure” facility.
- Holding people without legal counsel for between 12 and 24 hours, including people as young as 15.
Gitmo connection?
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...lice-brutalityA Chicago detective who led one of the most shocking acts of torture ever conducted at Guantánamo Bay was responsible for implementing a disturbingly similar, years-long regime of brutality to elicit murder confessions from minority Americans.
In a dark foreshadowing of the United States’ post-9/11 descent into torture, a Guardian investigation can reveal that Richard Zuley, a detective on Chicago’s north side from 1977 to 2007, repeatedly engaged in methods of interrogation resulting in at least one wrongful conviction and subsequent cases more recently thrown into doubt following allegations of abuse.
Zuley’s record suggests a continuum between police abuses in urban America and the wartime detention scandals that continue to do persistent damage to the reputation of the United States. Zuley’s tactics, which would be supercharged at Guantánamo when he took over the interrogation of a high-profile detainee as a US Navy reserve lieutenant, included:
• Shackling suspects to police-precinct walls through eyebolts for hours on end.
• Accusations of planting evidence when there was pressure for a high-profile murder conviction.
• Threats of harm to family members of those under interrogation used as leverage.
• Pressure on suspects to implicate themselves and others.
• Threats of being subject to the death penalty if suspects did not confess.
Sounds normal for Delta City.
so much for keeping Gitmo style justice @ Gitmo
sounding more and more like police, sheriff, constable, deputy work attracts 1000s of sicko criminal sadists, murderers.
lol @ cook county. "The Combine"
hardly limited to cook county. I bet other police/sheriff depts around the country have black sites for "enhanced interrogation". How long has the Cook Cty one existed before being exposed?
Of course, the more common police tactic is to beat the out of citizen, or shoot him, saying "resisted arrest", or "I thought he had a gun" which 99% of the time kills investigation.
If you say so Mouse.
http://america.aljazeera.com/article...rogations.html"There is one definition of arrest in the United States of America and that is the moment your individual liberty is restricted," Siska said. "The moment they slap cuffs on you, the clock starts running on the suspect's ability to access a phone, lawyer, and when they have to be arraigned. Any police interference with that is uncons utional."
Chicago pays reparations to victims of police torture:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...tims/25766531/
samePolice officers under former Chicago police commander Jon Burge used electrical shock, burning and mock executions to elicit confessions from suspects, mostly African-American, from the early 1970s through the early 1990s.
The statute of limitations ran out on his alleged crimes, but Burge was convicted in 2010 of perjury in civil proceedings for lying about torture he oversaw.
Burge was released from prison to a halfway house in October after serving less than four years in prison. He was released from the halfway house earlier this year.
Burge still receives a pension for his years on the force.
glad I was wrong about that. bully on Chicago for a change.
rightly afraid of more lawsuits, and putting the fear of prosecution in LEO participants in crime.
$5.5 million in reparations:Chicago made history today as the first municipality in the United States to pass legislation providing reparations for victims of police torture. The landmark policy will allot financial compensation to the mostly African-American men tortured from 1972 to 1991 under Area 2 Commander John Burge and his infamous “midnight crew.”
Last edited by Winehole23; 05-06-2015 at 09:40 PM.
more on Homan Square:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...sands-detained
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