City Council Finance Committee to weigh more than $16 million in settlements in police misconduct lawsuits

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The biggest payout is a proposed $14.25 million settlement in a wrongful conviction case that already has cost Chicago taxpayers more than $13 million.

Aldermen are poised to consider more than $16 million in payouts to settle two more lawsuits accusing police of misconduct, including a massive payout to settle a wrongful conviction case that has already cost Chicago taxpayers more than $13 million.

Taylor, now 46, has claimed police beat him into confessing to the crime, and suppressed evidence that proved his innocence. His lawsuit also accused police of coercing others into implicating him the murders. "Despite this evidence of Plaintiff's innocence, the Defendant Officers proceeded to frame Plaintiff for the murders rather than search for the real killer," reads the lawsuit.

The lawsuit also alleges that information that would have helped clear Taylor was kept in secret"street files" that were not shared with defense attorneys or prosecutors.

 

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