City of Chicago to pay man $3.6 million for wrongful conviction

Chicago Sun-Times
Mar. 13, 2012

Chicago taxpayers will pay $3.6 million to compensate a man who spent nine years in prison after allegedly being framed for an attempted murder he did not commit, under a settlement advanced Monday by a City Council committee.

[...]Wilson confessed to attacking Siler but only after allegedly being held for 30 hours, physically abused, denied food, sleep and his blood pressure medication and threatened with more violence if he did not confess.

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