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Patterson v. Burge

328 F. Supp. 2d 878 (N.D. Ill.)

2004

Orange v. Burge, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7234 (N.D. Ill.); Cannon v. Burge, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4040 (N.D. Ill.) Defeated police and City efforts to avoid having to stand trial for torturing and wrongfully convicting plaintiffs who spent decades in prison for crimes they did not commit.