ILLINOIS: Two freed after wrongful conviction related to Burge accusations

It would be a big job but ALL the convictions from the crooked Burge era should be re-examined

A Cook County judge is freeing two prisoners who say they were wrongly convicted of 5 murders more than 2 decades ago.

WBBM's Regine Schlesinger reports the Illinois Attorney General's office joined with the men's lawyers in asking the judge to vacate the convictions of Ronald Kitchen and Marvin Reeves.

Reeves was sentenced to 5 life terms and Kitchen originally received the death penalty although his sentence later was commuted to life by then Governor George Ryan.

Kitchen says his confession was beaten out of him by a detective working under the command of Jon Burge who's been accused of torturing suspects.

The two men were found guilty in the allegedly drug-related murders of two women and three children in a burning home at 60th and Campbell in 1988.

Original report here



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