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A man freed from prison last month by Gov. J.B. Pritzker but not exonerated of the double murder that put him behind bars has been granted a new trial.
On April 2, Gerald Reed, 57 who says the Chicago police tortured him to get him to confess to killing two people on the South Side in 1990 walked out of Stateville Correctional Center near Joliet after the governor commuted his life sentence based on a petition saying he faced serious health risks from the spread of the coronavirus in prison.
But his murder conviction had stood until Monday, when the Illinois Supreme Court vacated the conviction and ordered a new trial.
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Pritzker commutes sentence of man convicted of double murder
April 1, 2021
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CHICAGO (AP) Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday commuted the sentence of a man who claimed he was framed by Chicago police detectives for a 1990 double murder.
Gerald Reed was granted a new trial in 2018 on claims he was tortured into a false murder confession by detectives working for notorious police commander Jon Burge. But last year, Cook County Judge Thomas Hennelly ruled the Reed, 57, should stay in prison because the statement resulting from the alleged abuse was never used against him during trial, so his rights were never violated.