Ex-cop faces 30 years over torture of suspects

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Ex-cop faces 30 years over torture of suspects
Dozens of people — mostly black men — claimed for decades that officers tortured them into confessing armed robbery, murder, other crimes
Charles Rex Arbogast / AP
Former Chicago police lieutenant Jon Burge leaves the federal building in Chicago in May 2010.By KAREN HAWKINS
The Associated Press
updated 1/20/2011 7:19:44 AM ET 2011-01-20T12:19:44

CHICAGO — As a decorated Chicago police lieutenant, Jon Burge prided himself on sending bad guys to prison by getting them to confess to terrible crimes — and by committing terrible crimes himself in the process, prosecutors say.

Now, having been convicted of lying about the violent means he and his men used to get confessions, it is Burge's turn to face prison time.

With the sentencing hearing for Burge scheduled to start Thursday, prosecutors say his perjury and obstruction of justice convictions add up to 30-plus years in federal prison.

Defense attorneys are arguing for less than two years for the 63-year-old former commander whose name has become synonymous with police brutality in the nation's third-largest city.



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[mucifer]

1. This slime has been living off taxpayer dollars in Florida for years. I wish

he could get life in prison. He had people he tortured put on death row. But, I guess 30 years probably would be life.

[frylock]

2. put him in with gen pop..

let them sort things out.

[fatbuckel]

3. How does that go on so long without a conspiracy?