The City Council is poised to take up a $25 million settlement in a controversial police misconduct case involving two men whose murder convictions were overturned in the slaying of a college basketball standout in Chicago 30 years ago.
Tyrone Hood at his home in North Aurora on July 25, 2018. Before his sentence was overturned, Hood spent two decades in prison for the 1993 murder of Marshall Morgan Jr.
The city’s Finance Committee is scheduled to take up the settlement at its monthly meeting Monday, according to an agenda released this week. If the committee approves the proposal, it would move for a full vote before the City Council on Wednesday.The lawsuits have lingered for more than seven years as the city has paid outside law firms to fight the allegations, including expending hundreds of thousands of dollars to litigate over potential expert testimony and fighting to have former Gov.
Meanwhile, the Tribune has learned through public records requests that the city has paid nearly $7 million since 2016 to two outside law firms to litigate the case — part of a pattern that one former top lawyer for the city called “scandalous.” The city’s penchant for paying private attorneys in civil rights cases has been a hot-button issue for years. A 2019 investigation by the Tribune found that the city had paid $213 million in fees and costs to outside counsel over the previous 15 years.
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