David Wright, 46, was arrested when he was 17 years old in August 1994 for the murder of two of his friends, 16-year-old Tyrone Rockett and 26-year-old Robert Smith.
A Chicago man and his lawyers claim his conviction was based on a false confession he signed after a “grueling, abusive” 14-hour interrogation by three Chicago detectives.
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Special prosecutors assigned to cases connected to former CPD detective Kriston Kato are taking aim at a state torture commission created in the wake of allegations surrounding notorious ex-CPD detective Jon Burge.