The case is the first involving renewed torture allegations connected to Kriston Kato that has gone to trial, a test of whether evidence in decades-old cases tied to the disgraced detective can withstand scrutiny by a jury in 2023.
Then-Chicago police Detective Kriston Kato testifies Aug. 11, 2017, at the Leighton Criminal Courts Building in a hearing related to police Officer Jason Van Dyke's shooting of Laquan McDonald.
Special prosecutors Fabio Valentini and Maria McCarthy, who are handling a number of Cook County post-conviction cases related to Kato, brought the case to trial again after an appeals court overturned the conviction in 2019, finding then that new evidence aired in evidentiary hearings “undermines the court’s confidence in the factual correctness of the original guilty finding.
The special prosecutors’ case hinges on that confession, as well as an identification from an eyewitness who later recanted his story. Williams’ alleged confession was not recorded, and the eyewitness who changed his story in 2015 has since died. for challenging a statute that has allowed recourse for defendants who say they have been tortured by Chicago police officers.
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