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An Illinois Sidebar

By Steve Hall

Jon Burge. For those who have followed developments in Illnois, that name is a major part of the decade-long story of Governor Ryan's moratorium, exonerations, reform initiatives, and the Illinois General Assembly's vote earlier this month to repeal the state's death penalty. But for many outside of Illnois, it would have been easy to miss the name entirely. "Cop Gets 4½ Years for Lying About Torture," is the Courthouse News Service report. Former Chicago police Commander Jon Burge was sentenced to 4½ years in prison for lying about the police torture of suspects. Burge denied that officers ever abused suspects in custody, but evidence at a 2003 trial showed that he suffocated suspects with plastic bags, shocked them with electrical devices and put loaded guns to their heads...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 26, 2011 (boomark / email).