Daniel Taylor was 17 years old when Chicago police beat him until he made a false confession to a double murder he could not have committed because he was incarcerated at the time of the crime. He spent 20 years in prison and the payout looks to be $14.25m. If he was in prison, how can it take so long to exonerate him? The entire system is corrupt...
Daniel Taylor Was Innocent. He Spent Decades in Prison Trying to Fix the State’s Mistake.
He was in police custody at the time of the murders, but a dubious confession led to his wrongful conviction while Chicago police and prosecutors turned a blind eye to inconvenient facts that eventually exonerated him.
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