Panel: Evidence that Chicago police tortured suspect in 1991

CHICAGO (AP) - A state panel says there is evidence that a Chicago man who has been in prison for more than a quarter century was tortured into confessing to a 1991 triple murder by detectives working for ex-commander Jon Burge.

The Chicago Sun-Times (http://bit.ly/2jOsYCA0 reports that the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission referred the case to a Cook County judge for a hearing to determine if Javan Deloney should get a new trial.

Dozens of men, most of them black, have accused Burge and his detectives of torturing them into making false confessions. The city has paid tens of millions of dollars in damages in cases involving Burge and his men.

Burge was never criminally charged with torture, but he served time for lying about the torture in a civil case.

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Information from: Chicago Sun-Times, http://chicago.suntimes.com/