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The Sun-Times is reporting that a federal probe into police torture in Chicago is “ramping up.” Back in 2003, it was determined that Burge and other detectives wouldn’t face criminal charges because the statute of limitations had expired. But as part of a lawsuit filed by pardoned ex-death row inmate Madison Hobley, Burge and other detectives declared that they had not tortured suspects–which opens them up for prosecution on the basis of obstruction of justice, if their written testimony is false.
And, from the same piece: “Though the [Police Board] had nothing to say about the conduct of the state’s attorney’s office, it did make clear its belief that Burge and men in his command had violated the law in the Wilson case and had probably used electric shock on Melvin Jones. Those officers had never been prosecuted. Daley had been state’s attorney at the time.
