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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Matthew Hendrickson

Attorneys ask judge to vacate 39 remaining cases tied to disgraced CPD sergeant

After getting hundreds of wrongful drug convictions overturned in recent years, attorneys representing a group of men and women who say they were framed by disgraced former Chicago Police Sgt. Ronald Watts and officers under his command are asking a judge to vacate dozens of remaining convictions in one fell swoop.

Attorneys representing the group filed a motion earlier this week for a summary judgment on behalf of 39 people who have waited for years to prove that they were wrongfully arrested by police, according to the filing.

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