Two former Cook County prosecutors have been charged with lying about the relationship one had with a witness in the trial of a man who alleged he was tortured when questioned about the 1982 slayings of two Chicago police officers.
Special prosecutor Lawrence Oliver II on Wednesday unsealed charges against Nicholas Trutenko and Andrew Horvat.
The Cook County state's attorney's office said in a statement Wednesday that Horvat was fired in 2021, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. by signing up you agree to our terms of service "There are two travesties that are juxtaposed here," Oliver said."You have Jackie Wilson, who was tried three times -- 1982, 1989 and 2020 -- and he never received a fair trial in any of those trials. Equally tragic, the people of the state of Illinois, the taxpayers of Cook County, never received a fair and clean prosecution of the Wilson brothers.
Attorney Terry Ekl in a statement Wednesday said the charges against his client Horvat are"a travesty of justice." George Anderson was convicted of killing an 11-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl in Chicago in 1991. Anderson said he was kicked, punched and hit with a baton during 36 hours of questioning by detectives working under Burge. He signed confessions and later sought to suppress his statements, but the confessions were allowed into his trials.
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