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The Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University Law School Calls on Cook County State’s Attorney to Vacate Conviction and Free Daniel Taylor

The Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University Law School has called on Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez to vacate the conviction of Daniel Taylor. When Taylor was 17, he and seven others were charged with the 1992 shooting deaths of Sharon Haugabook and Jeffrey Lassiter. Taylor received a life sentence.

Police questioned Taylor …

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UPDATE- Englewood Four Exonerated

Dixmoor Cases
(originally ran 11/9/11) Prosecutors in Chicago vacated the convictions of three men, Robert Taylor, Jonathan Barr, and James Harden, serving sentences ranging from 80-85 years in prison. Taylor, Barr and Harden were convicted as teenagers of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in a Chicago suburb in 1991. Police also charged two others, …

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