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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Andy Grimm

Lawyers: City should stop fighting wrongful conviction cases tainted by CPD misconduct

Attorney Jon Loevy addresses reporters outside Chicago City Hall on Tuesday, flanked by clients who have sued the city over wrongful convictions linked to misconduct by former Chicago Police detective Reynaldo Guevara. Loevy, whose firm has won hundreds of millions in judgments and settlements against the city from police misconduct cases, said the city wastes taxpayer dollars by fighting cases to the bitter end. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

Attorneys at the law firm behind dozens of multimillion-dollar payouts in Chicago police misconduct cases have a message for the city’s next mayor: Put us out of business.

At a press conference outside City Hall on Tuesday, lawyers from the Loevy & Loevy law firm announced eight new lawsuits filed this week against the city by men who allege they were framed by former CPD Det. Reynaldo Guevara, whose alleged misconduct during the 1990s working out of CPD’s Area 5 station has led to the exoneration of 39 defendants.

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