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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via DPIC: A former *Illinois* death row inmate, *Nathson Fields*, was acquitted on  April 8 of a double homicide for which he spent eleven and a half years  on death row. ?I feel like my prayers have been answered,? said Fields  after the judge issued the not guilty verdict in the retrial. In Field?s  original trial, the judge took a $10,000 bribe, but then returned the  money when he discovered he was under federal investigation. Fields and  a co-defendant were convicted and sentenced to death, but the  convictions were thrown out when judge’s corruption was uncovered. The  co-defendant pled guilty to a charge of armed violence in exchange for  his testimony against Fields in the retrial. Fields has been residing in  the Chicago suburbs since his 2003 release on bond...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on April 09, 2009 (boomark / email).