A Gurnee man exonerated after a decades-long lock-up for a murder he didn't commit is now going after law enforcement officials for that wrongful conviction.
Herman Williams was released from an Illinois prison a year ago after his conviction for the murder of his ex-wife was vacated in Lake County.
He has now filed a lawsuit in federal court against nine former Lake County police officers and their respective departments, along with two former state's attorneys and a now-deceased pathologist.He was locked up away from his children since 1994 and says that's what motivated the lawsuit.
Williams, who is now 59, says he's repairing his relationships with his children, who for decades thought he killed their mother. To this day, no other suspects have been arrested for the death of Penny Williams, whose body was found in a shallow pond in Lake County in September 1993.
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