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: Capital Defense Weekly

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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

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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).