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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Andy Grimm

2 former assistant state’s attorneys charged in botched prosecution of alleged Burge torture victim

Jackie Wilson (center) is flanked by his attorneys Flint Taylor (left) and Elliot Slosar in October 2020, after his murder and robbery charges were dropped. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times file)

Special prosecutor Lawrence Oliver II on Wednesday unsealed charges accusing longtime prosecutors, Nick Trutenko and Andrew Horvat, of lying about Trutenko’s decadeslong relationship with a key witness against a man accused of the 1982 murders of two Chicago police officers.

Jackie Wilson’s case, and that of his brother, Andrew Wilson, was marred by some of the first documented allegations of torture by disgraced Chicago Police Department Cmdr. Jon Burge and would see Wilson stand trial for the killings of Officers William Fahy and Richard O’Brien three times.

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