Desmond Weston freed at 29 years for a murder he didn't commit

[8WON6]

https://theblackdetour.com/chicago-man-freed-after-serving-29-years-for-a-murder-confessing/

A Chicago man has been released from prison after severing 29 years for a crime he says he didn’t commit. Desmond Weston was released from Dixon Correctional Center after special prosecutors dismissed the charges in his murder case citing lack of evidence and a judge moved to vacate his conviction according to CBS Chicago.


Weston alleges Chicago police detectives tortured him forcing him to give a false confession in the murder of 19-year-old Joseph Watson in 1990. The 46-year-old said detectives forced the confession out of him during a 12-hour interrogation. Weston was only 17 when he was arrested for Watson’s murder.

Weston says police beat him during the interrogation and his lawyers said there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime according to the news station. The accused detectives who allegedly abused Weston all previously worked under Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge. Burge served three years in prison for lying about torturing suspects in the 1970s and 1980s. Burge passed away last year.

Cook County Prosecutor Robert Milan who has been tasked with reviewing cases in which people are seeking new trials.

“In terms of the feel and looks, it doesn’t even look like it – in terms of everything has changed, so the feel has worn off,” he told the news station. Weston’s own attorney doubted the confession.

Weston said his lawyer told him, “‘Oh, they’re not going to believe a black boy from Englewood over the word of these detectives,’ and stuff like that.”

“It made me feel how I was at that point – this big,’” he said. However, he said his own family always believed that he was innocent.

29 years, and the dirty ass cops did 3 years for two decades of tortures.

 

[King Poetic]

30 years and in that period of time probably loss love ones like moms pops, no sense o how to use new technology, get proper education and enjoy life

millions of dollars will help, but it doesn’t bring back the time you missed

 

[EndDomination]

I recommend everyone read Solitary by Albert Woodfox; this System is only here to destroy us.

 

[Afrodroid]

May God bless my people and set them free from this evil amerikkkan system

 

[Wiseborn]

I think anyone convicted of murder in Chicago case needs an automatic relook.

 

[Wildin]

I think anyone convicted of a crime the united states case needs an automatic relook.

Fixed.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Chicago better cut that check. 30 years lost over a lie.

Weston has agreed not to seek a “certificate of innocence,” which would allow him to collect up to $200,000 in compensation from the state according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

@Nicole0416 @Stringer Cochran explain this because I don't understand. And I'm not trying to speak ill of a man and I don't know his circumstances.

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Chicago better cut that check. 30 years lost over a lie.



@Nicole0416 @Stringer Cochran explain this because I don't understand. And I'm not trying to speak ill of a man and I don't know his circumstances.

Let me look into this. I have to read the background. I hope it’s not a case of him relinquishing them from liability or it could be a situation where he wants to pursue a higher monetary amount than the cap. But I’ll research-


so far, you’ve given me 2 homework projects in 2 days, lol

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Since the article didn't do a good job on explaining Burge's situation. I'll add the following:

Jon Graham Burge (December 20, 1947 – September 19, 2018) was an American police detective and commander in the Chicago Police Department who was accused of torturing more than 200 criminal suspects between 1972 and 1991 in order to force confessions.
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Following the shooting of several Chicago law enforcement officials in 1982, the police obtained confessions that contributed to convictions of two people. One filed a civil suit in 1989 against Burge, other officers, and the city, for police torture and cover-up; Burge was acquitted in 1989 because of a hung jury. He was suspended from the Chicago Police Department in 1991 and fired in 1993.

In 2002, a four-year review revealed numerous indictable crimes and other improprieties, but no indictment was made against Burge or his officers, as the statute of limitations for the crimes had expired. In 2003, Governor George Ryan pardoned four of Burge's victims who were on death row and whose convictions were based on coerced confessions.[1][2]

In 2008, Patrick Fitzgerald, United States Attorney for Northern Illinois, charged Burge with obstruction of justice and perjury in relation to testimony in a 1989 civil suit against him for damages for alleged torture. Burge was convicted on all counts on June 28, 2010, and sentenced to four-and-a-half years in federal prison on January 21, 2011. He was released in October 2014.

Every person put in jail/person that was tortured by or had torture approved by Burge should have been freed immediately and monetarily compensated.

This is more wicked than Babylon ever was.

 

[Pazzy]

Like I said, its every other week...

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Let me look into this. I have to read the background.

so far, you’ve given me 2 homework projects in 2 days, lol

My bad.

But

 

[The G.O.D II]

Chicago better cut that check. 30 years lost over a lie.



@Nicole0416 @Stringer Cochran explain this because I don't understand. And I'm not trying to speak ill of a man and I don't know his circumstances.

@asking those two

 

[Secure Da Bag]

@asking those two

What? They're lawyers. You got some other posters I should be asking?

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

Chicago better cut that check. 30 years lost over a lie.



@Nicole0416 @Stringer Cochran explain this because I don't understand. And I'm not trying to speak ill of a man and I don't know his circumstances.

Looks like it might be the latter part of my statement but I haven’t started researching heavy, just on a first review- I think I get what’s going on with the legal maneuvering.
“Weston will still be able to pursue a civil lawsuit over his imprisonment and torture allegations, even without a certificate of innocence.”

 

[Nicole0416_718_929_646212]

What? They're lawyers. You got some other posters I should be asking?

Please just ignore that shyt. They do this from thread to thread to distract or derail. Mad as fuk and miserable that the only educational attainment is as a Couch Coli Analyst and Comment Constructer with a Trollography certification.