Conviction Stands
- Gerald Reed’s shot at freedom came just before Christmas 2018, when a Cook County judge threw out his murder convictions amid accusations he was tortured into a false confession by detectives under notorious ex-Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge.
On Friday, those hopes were dashed.
In a stunning reversal, a different judge on Friday reinstated Reed’s convictions and his life sentence for a gruesome, decades-old double homicide. After decades in state prison, Reed was being held at Cook County Jail as he hoped another jury would hear his case and end his incarceration for good.
Instead, Judge Thomas Hennelly ruled that all the proceedings leading up to Reed’s exoneration actually centered around an oral statement that was never used at trial — not his separate written confession. Reed, 56, alleged that Burge detectives tortured him into that statement.
This is at least the second case that, when looked at dispassionately and without granting blind allegiance to the litany of lies spouted by Zorn and the corrupt Northwestern University minions, stands up to legal challenges and shows that CPD got it correct.
Labels: good news
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
51 Comments:
You can't never leave
WOW!
I know this guy that works at one of those law firms that does this kind of shit. I always remind him that the people they defend are often actually guilty of horrible crimes. He helps get them back on the street. I want the hit him with a fucking phone book sometimes.
And the Gen'ers want to know "Wwhat's a phone book?
Mayors statement to the media. How interesting she clearly sees the problem when it applies to her but not to the police:
Obviously Bill McCaffrey was your buddy, but I hope that we are not getting to a new standard in media here in Chicago where we have a bunch of unnamed sources that there’s no other information provided,” Lightfoot said. “They’re just throwing out a bunch of chum on the water, and people are biting at it as if it’s the truth, because the things that have been put out that I’ve seen are demonstrably false, and could easily be proven so with a little bit of diligence, which is what I would assume reporters who are serious about this would do.”
RIP John Burge.
SCC, see you gained a new fan, Mark Konkol. He states that the blog is racist and he does not like your idea about ousting Dim Fox. He wrote an article for the Patch on 14Feb20. Konkol can blow Fim Fox all he wants, SCC keep up the good work!
It always gets my goat when you see groups like Northwesern's "Innocence Project" or attorneys from the Peoples Law Office stand outside 26th and California with their prized clients who all profess to have been beaten and coerced into signing confessions by the late Jon Burge. Watching the news last night, with the media surrounding Reed's mother and some other woman screaming about Reed's innocence was just another instance. The media loves this shit, and they despise us. Bloomberg supposed has stepped on his dick when they played the recordings of his rationale for deploying police to minority neighborhoods when he responded that police are sent to where most of the crime is. And this, like everything else today is racist. There's a lot of mileage on those tires and the taxpayers are getting sick of it.
In a stunning reversal, a different judge on Friday reinstated Reed’s convictions and his life sentence for a gruesome, decades-old double homicide. After decades in state prison, Reed was being held at Cook County Jail as he hoped another jury would hear his case and end his incarceration for good.
After watching the family news conference yesterday I can see where Reed's murderous rage came from, momma Reed looked like she was gonna burn down the court house...
about time somebody woke up to this.
And while we are on the subject what is the status of Jackie Wilson. He has been freed for about 18 months awaiting a disposition of his murder conviction.
To 12:57- Lawyers are just like whores. They will do anything for money.
Hennelly, good guy. Hope he doesn't fall prey to the "vote every judge out" mantra or gets targeted by preckwinkle now like Couglan did. I bet he gets called in to Evans' office soon though.
It must have stunned the Chicago Tribunes editor
to see not only this article but also the one this same day
about the Border Patrol to include Chicago and other sanctuary cities
In upcoming roundups!
Larry can’t be happy about that.
Retired, 30+
Kimm Foxx always bringing up a situation in which a man (Burge) was never convicted of 1 torture case. Funny how the liberal news never brings up their past 2 hero's who were convicted of crimes (Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife Sandy) They stole almost 1 million dollars and only served less than 2 years and the other less than 1 year but Blago got 14 years and never took 1 dime. I guess you gotta be white in the city, county and state to get negative news coverage
Not saying that on rare occasions innocent people go to jail. Is it always a result of an evil officer, racist detective trying to put an innocent man away? Most likely not. More likely the result of flawed identification from witnesses or flat out, witnesses who lie. Were police tactics different decades ago, not going to deny it. But there are too many unsolved murders from years past, that this idea that detectives were jailing innocent people willy nilly, the lack of past clearances doesn’t really support that. Now, you have politicians & media screaming about a lack of murder clearances in the detective division. You’ve got an understaffed and inexperienced detective division, ERI (which arrestees are aware of), uncooperative witnesses & communities, police oversight up the ass, more than likely a victim with an extensive criminal history and a State’s Attorney who acts like a public defender. How easy do they think it is for a clearance? These various innocence projects are so blinded by their self-righteousness and own bias against the institution of policing that there’s a lot of room for errors (if not down right lies) on their part. They can’t even fathom the idea that a guy looking at life in prison has any reason to not proclaim his innocence and lie. Always, always the police lied and tortured the guy.
Excellent!
As Kimmy rapidly lets the killers go free finally a judge with some common sense he’s going to keep the animal behind bars where they belong for the rest of their lives too bad we didn’t have the death penalty here, Which is the ultimate deterrent all the lies from the Democrats letting all the criminals got a free ride is wrong wrong is right God bless the police!
And where exactly was this reported in the mainstream media? Absolutely no where because it does not fit the narrative nor the agenda.
True justice occasionally emerges from the Crook County Judicial cesspool.
Holy Shit....a judge who judges by rule of law.....forgot how nice can be.
SCC: This is why i do not routinely vote NO on the judicial retention ballot candidates. Some - not all - deserve to keep their place on the bench. Perhaps we should advise your readers of good judges who support our efforts.
Retired .38 spl +P
Lawyer gets info from City When Burge was working, Then tells those arrested that they have money coming.
Did any sergeants who are STILL FOP members or retirees not receive their ballot?
Perhaps someone at FOP is holding some back for potential voting fraud?
God bless those brave detectives and the work they did. The good people stand behind you and always will. Remember these fine people didn’t have time and half back then. They put away violent scum bags and are heroes always!
Hmmmm....are the judge(s) defying Tim Evans or is Evans allowing wiggle room for folding?
What about that Prosecution Team KmmmFxxxx 2020...are they on the hook for some shenanigans when the case was to be vacated over a year ago? More of KmmmFxxxx manipulative withholding of evidence, testimony on behalf of the defense and personal notoriety ?
Did the original judge even bother to read the full file?
Wonder if the other similar restored justice involved liars will be given a new look and repeal of freedoms.
Expect another costly, tying up the court bullshit re-re-appeal anyway.
There’s more ways to get away with murder in Cook County.
Glad a judge had some balls for once!
OT
From: Cook County Record (free, online)
2-15-2020
"Judge orders (Cook) County Clerk Yarbrough to turn over
documents to watchdog investigating alleged political hiring"
By Dan Churney on Feb. 10, 2020, 06:13 PM
Good, fuck him
That guy will get out 10 years down the road
Its about f$#king time.....They have been releasing Murders, Sex Asst offenders, violent criminals just because some idiot lawyer say Burge beat them. They are finally looking at the evidence in the cases. Even 25-35 years ago they never brought forth a case just on some mope admitting guilt....you still had to have evidence. They did not beat a confession out of anyone....the evidence was always there.
Got to admit I enjoyed the family doing their happy dance in the lobby of 26th and Cal when they showed it on the news yesterday. Momma and the unidentified friend filled the cavernous lobby with their non-sensical wailing about the innocence of Reed. Its been a while since we had such a good show.
Anonymous said...
SCC: This is why i do not routinely vote NO on the judicial retention ballot candidates. Some - not all - deserve to keep their place on the bench. Perhaps we should advise your readers of good judges who support our efforts.
Retired .38 spl +P
Like most of your posts Retired .38 the idea of making a list of “good judges” is a bad one. There are NO. good judges.
Nice work by CPD and the jury back then, and by this judge now.
What is it Frank?
It's the missing evidence in the Kilner case, my god..he was innocent.
He went to chair three years ago Frank.
Liberals are re-enacting scenes from “Scanners” over this
Thank God!!! This POS is not to be out from where belongs!!! The mother of this human fecal matter was on TV trying to muster up some crocodile but being the old harlot she failed!!! Failure like producing a piece of waste for a son! RIP Commander Burge!!! Thanks for your military service too!
Paul Denovi claims that Kessem reported him to his employer. Maybe he and the rest of his police-hating Bernie supporters should be reported. They’re all tweeting on school time.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Paul_DeNovi/status/1228742565362573314
Incredible.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/investigations/ct-cook-county-court-records-evans-supreme-court-20200213-r77n6l3qh5gvjoqd6t6xn4zwz4-story.html
Lies and incompetence that cost lives. The Cook County way.
More bullshit can be incoming...
"The ruling halts preparations for Reed’s retrial. His attorneys instead are exploring an appeal of Hennelly’s decision. "
The scum media were fawning all over the offenders momma n the outraged Rev Runs etc.
I didn’t see anyone from the media interviewing the dead victims family.
15 Feb.20 @08:57
Absofuckinlutely spot on!!! ��������
I'm close with a friend who's dad worked for Jon Burge and it was a lie that they tortured and coerced confessions out of people. An absolute lie! It was a false narrative drawn up by the media. Big surprise right? Criminals lie...who knew?
Another great example of this is the tale of Anthony Porter. There's a Netflix documentary on it that does an exceptional job detailing the efforts of the D unit, but ultimately to no avail. It's titled "Murder in the Park". It will blow your mind. Should be required viewing for recruits. Here's a link.
https://g.co/kgs/bMz7hk
Signed,
Young guy who gets it.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I'm close with a friend who's dad worked for Jon Burge and it was a lie that they tortured and coerced confessions out of people. An absolute lie! It was a false narrative drawn up by the media. Big surprise right? Criminals lie...who knew?
Another great example of this is the tale of Anthony Porter. There's a Netflix documentary on it that does an exceptional job detailing the efforts of the D unit, but ultimately to no avail. It's titled "Murder in the Park". It will blow your mind. Should be required viewing for recruits. Here's a link.
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Agreed on the Netflix show. Outstanding. Some stand up detectives were given the right to speak in the show. Anthony Porter absolutely committed the crime. numerous witness who knew Porter personally. The neighborhood feared porter because he was brutally violent and had an IQ of about 6. Alstory Simon did confess but he said it was because he was up for days doing cocaine. I usually poo-poo the false confession stuff and I don't know why he confessed, but the witnesses who knew Porter were overwhelmingly convincing.
We were in an apartment in 003 on an investigation and on the wall is a picture of that POS Anthony Porter. The woman (either niece or aunt of him) gushingly exclaims, "Do you know who that is?" I say, "Yeah, a double murderer."
What are we doing to rehabilitate this young man and productively return him to society? That is the question!
I’m sick and tired of these mopes using the “I was tortured” excuse to get out. I’m glad there are people who will see thru the BS and keep bad people locked up.
All this talk about Burge and his crew when he was Lt. of Area 2 homicide. What about the commander? Where was he? Who was the commander? Leroy Martin. LeRoy Martin, whose west side district bag man was caught in O’Hare airport with $250,000 in cash. Did his time and kept his mouth shut. The man that, as Supt of Police, signed off on and allowed for them to reopen Burge allegation cases. How was he rewarded? He ran the CHA police when it formed after his retirement.
Oh lordy lordy my poor baby going back to jail! Tough shit.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
All this talk about Burge and his crew when he was Lt. of Area 2 homicide. What about the commander? Where was he? Who was the commander? Leroy Martin. LeRoy Martin, whose west side district bag man was caught in O’Hare airport with $250,000 in cash. Did his time and kept his mouth shut. The man that, as Supt of Police, signed off on and allowed for them to reopen Burge allegation cases. How was he rewarded? He ran the CHA police when it formed after his retirement.
2/16/2020 03:22:00 PM
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Never even thought of that. If it was a white guy I'd have heard who the commander was. Hey if the liberals didn't have a double-standard they'd have no standards at all.
Well done CPD
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