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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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