$260.8M settlement proposed to resolve misconduct cases involving ex-CPD Detective Reynaldo Guevara
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson proposed a $260.8 million settlement to resolve 16 police misconduct lawsuits involving former detective Reynaldo Guevara, who was linked to numerous wrongful murder convictions.
Mayor Brandon Johnson is proposing a $260.8 million global settlement to resolve en masse 16 police misconduct lawsuits and compensate 17 plaintiffs framed for murders by corrupt former Chicago police Detective Reynaldo Guevara.Forty-three people, including three women, have been exonerated after they were sent to prison on murder convictions in cases handled by Guevara in the 1980s and 1990s. Most of them lived in Humboldt Park.As of last winter, lawsuits targeting him had already cost the…
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