CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A man who spent more than twenty years in prison for a double-murder he did not commit could get a huge settlement from the City of Chicago.
The City Council’s Finance Committee is expected to approve a more than $14.25 million settlement with Daniel Taylor, who was granted a certificate of innocence in 2014. Taylor was 17 when he was accused in connection with the murders which occurred while he was in police custody on a disorderly conduct charge.
The settlement is a culmination of a lawsuit filed against the city, which claimed Taylor confessed to the murders after being beaten by police. The suit also alleged that police withheld evidence that might have exonerated Taylor.
“Unfortunately, the misconduct that caused Plaintiff’s wrongful conviction was not an isolated incident," stated the lawsuit according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
"To the contrary, the Chicago Police Department, including officers working within the Department “Area” where this investigation occurred, engaged in a pattern of unlawfully coercing confessions over a period of years, frequently preying on young African-American men in order to close unsolved cases through overzealous methods of interrogation.”
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