A Southwest Side man was awarded $1.3 million Tuesday after a Cook County jury found two Chicago Police detectives and a police polygraph administrator created a false confession about him in the 2001 murder of his neighbor, according to the man's lawyers.
Donny McGee's award is to include $330,000 from the officers' personal funds, according to Loevy & Loevy Attorneys at Law.
McGee, who spent three years in prison, was to face the death penalty in the murder of Ethel Perstlen, 76.
Polygraphs have been discredited for years now and many courts disallow any sort of testimony regarding interpretations of their data. In what might be called an ironic twist, the unreliable data produced and interpreted by the technician was turned into a "false confession" by lawyers and cost him $110,000. The detectives used the data provided by a Department trained operator and the lawyers turned it into another $220,000 payday.
Seeing as how this case only cost the city $1 million (plus lawyer costs we're sure), we could see them writing a check for their part and leaving the three CPD members holding the bag on any appeals and related costs for their $110,000 each.
Anyone want to guess what the clearance rate is going to drop to now?
Seeing as how this case only cost the city $1 million (plus lawyer costs we're sure), we could see them writing a check for their part and leaving the three CPD members holding the bag on any appeals and related costs for their $110,000 each.
Anyone want to guess what the clearance rate is going to drop to now?
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