Beaten While In Custody

Jackie Wilson - Smothered, threatened with gun, beaten, and electrically shocked by Area 2 officers; convicted and sentenced to death in 1982 for both murders described above; reversed and remanded for a new trial because the trial judge did not properly instruct the jury regarding the defendant's right to testify, Wilson v. Williams, 139 Ill. App. 3d (1985); convicted of the murder of Officer Richard O'Brien (but not William Fahey) and sentenced to natural life; conviction and sentence affirmed, People v. Wilson, 257 Ill. App. 3d 670 (1993); federal writ of habeas corpus denied, Wilson v. Williams, 182 F.3d 562 (1999).
------------------------Andrew Wilson
- Punched, kicked, smothered with plastic bag, electrically shocked, and forced against hot radiator by Area 2 officers; convicted and sentenced to death for the murders of on-duty Chicago Police Officers William Fahey and Richard O'Brien on February 9, 1982, in the 8100 block of South Morgan Avenue; reversed and remanded on ground that the trial court erred in refusing to suppress his confession as involuntary, People v. Wilson, 116 Ill. 2d 29 (1987);
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Derrick E. King - Beaten with baseball bat and telephone book by Area 2 officers;
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Madison Hobley - Handcuffed to a wall ring and beaten by Area 2 Detectives Robert Dwyer and James Lotito, taken to central police headquarters, handcuffed to a chair, kicked by Sergeant Patrick Garrity, and smothered with a typewriter cover by Detective Daniel McWeeny;
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