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SUMMARY OF EVIDENCE OF MONELL POLICY AND PRACTICE OF TORTURE AND COVER-UP, AND OF DEFENDANTS MARTIN’S, SHINES’, NEEDHAM’S AND HILLARD’S INVOLVEMENT [REDACTED]

1. Mayor Richard M. Daley was the States’ Attorney of Cook County from 1981 through 1988, and he has served as Mayor of the City of Chicago from 1989 to the present.

2. On or about February 25, 1982, Police Superintendent Richard Brzeczek informed States Attorney Richard M. Daley by letter of the allegations made by Dr. John Raba, that Andrew Wilson had been beaten and electric shocked by Chicago Police detectives at Area 2 on February 14, 1982. 2/25/82 Brzeczek Letter to Daley; Brzeczek Affidavit.

3. Brzeczek further informed Daley that he would not initiate a criminal investigation into the allegations that Wilson was tortured unless Daley authorized such an investigation. Id.

4. Daley never authorized a criminal investigation, and the Chicago Police Department therefore did not initiate a criminal investigation into Wilson’s allegations, and on May 19, 1983, Daley honored Burge and four other Area 2 detectives for their work in the Wilson case” Brzeczek Dep., Wilson v. City of Chicago, pp 123-24; Brzeczek Affidavit; Chicago Tribune, 5/20/83, “Daley Hails 11 in Crime War.”

5. The Chicago Police Department never investigated numerous allegations of police torture and abuse which arose from the manhunt to find and arrest Andrew Wilson and which were lodged with its IAD and OPS in February of 1982. Wilson v. City of Chicago, 6 F3d 1230 (7th Cir. 1993).

6. On November 12, 1982, Andrew Wilson testified at his motion to suppress hearing that he was tortured by Jon Burge, John Yucaitis, and other Area 2 detectives by electric shock, bagging, beating and burning on a radiator. People v. Wilson. 2

7. In their Memorandum In Opposition To Motion To Bar Testimony Concerning Other Alleged Victims of Police Misconduct, filed on January 22, 1992 before the Chicago Police Board in the Matter of Charges Filed against Respondents Jon Burge, John Yucaitis and Patrick O’Hara, Cases # 1856-58, specially appointed City of Chicago lawyers, on behalf of the City of Chicago and Chicago Police Superintendent Leroy Martin, judicially admitted that: At the hearing, Andrew Wilson will testify that on February 14, 1982, he was arrested at an apartment by several officers, including respondents Burge and Yucaitis. As Wilson was being taken to the car to be transported to Area II, he heard Burge telling the transporting officers not to “mess with” Wilson and that they would deal with him when they arrived at the station. Wilson was then taken to Area II by Yucaitis and three other officers. Transcript of Testimony of Andrew Wilson, July 7, 10, 11, 1989, at 2914-31 When they arrived at Area II, Wilson was taken to a room where the four transporting officers, including Yucaitis, and other officers started beating him. They hit him, kicked him, knocked him down and slammed him into a window so hard that it broke. In addition, one of the officers grabbed a plastic garbage bag and put it over Wilson’s head, holding it around his neck so that he could not breathe. The officers took the bag off when Wilson bit a hole in it. The officers stopped beating Wilson when Burge entered the room and stated that if it had been him, he would not have left any marks on Wilson. Tr. at 2932-36 Wilson was taken to a second room and handcuffed to the wall. Yucaitis then took Wilson to a telephone and told him to call his brother. When Wilson replied that he did not want to talk but wanted a lawyer, he was taken back to the second room again handcuffed to the wall. Tr. At 2937-44. Burge entered the room and told Wilson he was going to make a statement because Burge’s reputation was at stake. Burge left the room and Yucaitis came in with a brown paper bag. Yucaitis opened the bag and took out a black box about 12-14 inches long, 8-9 inches wide and 6 ½-7 inches high. The box had a crank and two wires with clamps. Yucaitis squatted down in front of Wilson with the box between his own legs, and put one clamp in Wilson’s nose and one on Wilson’s ears, and cranked the box. The shock caused Wilson’s teeth to grind and was so painful that he kicked Yucaitis. Yucaitis punched him in the mouth and cranked the box again. Yucaitis left the room and then returned, put the black box in the bag, and left again. Tr. at 2947-55. Respondent O’Hara then came in and took Wilson to see the Assistant State’s Attorney, Lawrence Hyman. According to Wilson’s testimony, with O’Hara present, Wilson asked Hyman, “You want me to make a statement after they’ve been torturing me?” O’Hara took Wilson back to the second room. Tr. at 2956-59. Burge later returned to the second room with the brown paper bag and said, “Fun time.” Burge put a pair of handcuffs on Wilson’s other arm and another pair on Wilson’s 3 ankles. He then placed the bag in the garbage can and left. He returned, took out the black box, put the clamps on Wilson’s ears and cranked the box. The shock caused Wilson’s to grind his teeth and knocked Wilson out of his chair. Wilson kept rubbing the clips from the electrical device off his ears. Tr at 2961-63. Wilson was then handcuffed across the radiator, kneeling with his arms outstretched. Burge and another officer put the clamps on Wilson’s little fingers and cranked the box repeatedly this time for longer periods. As he was being shocked, Wilson’s chest, leg and face were forced against the radiator and he was burned. Tr. at 2963-66 When Burge stopped cranking and took the clamps off Wilson’s little fingers, he took another shocking device out of the bag. It plugged into an electrical outlet and had a cord sticking out of it. Burge placed the device very near Wilson’s skin so that he could feel it tingling. Burge then jabbed the second device into Wilson’s back and Wilson got a full jolt, slamming Wilson into the grill on the window. Wilson began spitting out blood. Burge and the other officer put the devices back in the bag and left. Tr. at 296-68. A while later, Wilson was taken to Area I headquarters for a lineup. At Area I, Burge stuck his gun in Wilson’s mouth and cocked it back and forth. When Wilson arrived back at Area II after the lineup, Burge told him that if he did not make a statement, he would shock him again. Later, Burge told Wilson he was going to “fry his black ass.” Tr. at 2969-75. Memorandum In Opposition, pp.4-6.

8. In February of 1992, Andrew Wilson testified before the Police Board on behalf of the City in the Matter of Charges Filed against Respondents Jon Burge, John Yucaitis and Patrick O’Hara, Cases # 1856-58, and described his torture in a manner consistent with how the City described it in its January 22, 1992 Memorandum In Opposition To Motion To Bar Testimony Concerning Other Alleged Victims of Police Misconduct, at pp. 4-6; Police Board Testimony of Andrew Wilson.

9. In Wilson v. City of Chicago, 86-C-2360, the City of Chicago, who was a Defendant in that case, admitted in its Amended Answer, dated July 13, 1995, that Andrew Wilson was tortured by Jon Burge on February 14, 1982.

10. Melvin Jones testified on August 5, 1982 at his motion to suppress hearing that he was arrested and transported to Area 2 at 92nd and Cottage Grove on February 5, 1982, and 4 placed in an interview room. People v. Melvin Jones, 8/5/82, pp. 61-62.

11. Melvin Jones testified that while being held in an interview room and interrogated, Lieutenant Jon Burge pulled up a chair and sat in front of Jones who was cuffed to the wall, that Burge had a little wooden box with a long cord, that Burge pulled down Jones’ pants to his ankles and electrically shocked Jones on his foot, then on his thigh and then on his penis. Jones testified that he kept hollering and telling Burge that he wasn’t supposed to do this to him, that Burge said to him that he had no proof, that Burge asked detective Flood, who was present for the shocking, if he saw anything and Flood looked at the ceiling and said no. Jones further stated that Burge said, “[n]o court and no State are going to take your word against a Lieutenant’s word,” and Burge later hit him in the head with a stapler. People v. Jones, 8/5/82, pp. 65-71, 74.

12. Melvin Jones further testified that on February 6, 1982, while he was still being detained in an Area 2 interview room, Defendant McWeeny entered the room with another detective and questioned Jones, after which Lieutenant Burge entered the room and asked McWeeny if Jones had started talking yet. Jones further stated that when McWeeny said Jones hadn’t said anything yet, Burge pulled out a gun and cocked it, put it up to Jones’ head and said
he was going to “blow Jones’ black head off.” Id. pp. 76-79.

13. Melvin Jones testified on February 19, 1992 on behalf of the City at the Chicago Police Board Hearing, that McWeeny told Burge to get out of the room and McWeeny stated to him later that evening that he [McWeeny] “had got the Lieutenant off me for right now. He said, if you are going to talk, you know, it would be easier for me.” Id. at 79; Chicago Police Board, 2/19/92, p. 856.

14. Cassandra Watson, Melvin Jones’ attorney in 1982, testified at the Chicago Police 5 Board Hearings on 2/19/92 that Jones told her within the first 10 days of February, 1982 that he had been beaten and threatened at Area 2, that while he was in an interview room at Area 2 a gun had been placed to his head, and that Lieutenant Burge had electrically shocked him with an electrical shock box. Chicago Police Board Proceedings, 2/19/92, pp. 960-62.

15. Jones testified on behalf of the City in the Police Board proceedings against Burge, and again identified Burge as the person who tortured him. Id., p. 826).

16. In their Memorandum In Opposition, filed on January 22, 1992 before the Chicago Police Board, specially appointed City of Chicago lawyers, on behalf of Chicago Police Superintendent Leroy Martin and the City of Chicago, judicially admitted that: Melvin Jones will testify that on February 5, 1982, just nine days prior to Andrew Wilson’s arrest, he was taken to an Area II interrogation room where he was handcuffed and questioned by Area II detectives concerning his knowledge and participation in a murder. When he failed to give information implicating himself in the murder, respondent Burge entered the room and told Jones that he was going to talk. Burge then asked Jones if he had ever heard of him, and when Jones replied that he had not, Burge told him that before he left the station Jones would “wish he had never set eyes on him.” Burge left the interrogation room but returned after Jones persisted in his refusal to talk to the interrogating detectives. Burge had Jones cuffed to a second ring and then produced and plugged into the wall socket a wooden box measuring approximately 10" x 6" x 6", with tweezers and a long nail type device. He again asked Jones if he was going to talk. When Jones again refused, Burge pulled down Jones’ pants and shorts and, using
the electrical device, shocked Jones three times, on the foot, thigh, and penis. While he was shocking Jones, Burge demanded that Jones talk. He told Jones that he had also shocked “Satan” (Anthony Holmes) and “Cochise,” forcing them to crawl all over the floor. He also told Jones that nobody would believe his word against a lieutenant’s. Burge asked another Area II detective present in the room if he had seen anything, and the detective looked at the ceiling and said no. Burge also tied a sock in Jones’ mouth. Burge was interrupted in his interrogation of Jones, apparently by the news that a policeman had been shot and killed on a bus in his area. Later, Burge also struck Jones with a stapler. When Jones continued to deny knowing anything about the murder, Burge again entered the interrogation room. He pointed a gun at Jones’ head, cocked it and told Jones he was going to “blow his black head off.” 6
City and Martin’s Memorandum In Opposition, pp. 7-8.

17. On May 15, 1995, the City of Chicago admitted that Melvin Jones had been
electrically shocked by Jon Burge on his genitals and thigh with a device in a wooden box and threatened with a gun, while he was handcuffed to a ring in the wall in an Area 2 interview room in an attempt to coerce a confession from him. Local Rule 12 N Statement of the City, ¶ 26.

18. In Wilson v. City of Chicago, 86-C-2360, the City of Chicago, who was a Defendant in that case, admitted in its Amended Answer, dated July 13, 1995, that Melvin Jones was tortured by Jon Burge in February of 1982.

18. In February of 1983, Leroy Martin was appointed Commander of Area 2, and he held this post for 10-11 months. Martin Dep., Czajkowski v. City of Chicago; Martin Notes, 6/24/96.

19. Lt Jon Burge, as commanding officer of the Area 2 Violent Crimes Unit, answered directly in the chain of command to Martin, whom he briefed on cases in person and in written summaries. Id.; Martin testimony, 8/27/04, Darrell Cannon Parole Revocation Hearing.

20. As Commander, Martin received the face or charging sheet of all citizens complaints made against officers under his command, and also reviewed police reports in cases under investigation. Id.

21. While Commander of Area 2, Martin learned of the allegations of torture made by Andrew Wilson against Burge and other Area 2 detectives. Martin notes, 6/1/95; 5/11/96.

22. While Martin was Commander of Area 2, there were numerous allegations of torture against Burge and his men, with four separate cases and five victims alleging electric shock, baggings and beatings in the time period of October 27, 1983 to November 18, 1983 alone. Plaintiff’s Listing of Known Burge, Area 2 and 3 Torture Victims, 1972-1991. 7

23. Jon Burge, Sergeant John Byrne, and more than twenty other Area 2 detectives who are alleged to have committed repeated acts of torture at Area 2 while Martin was Commander, have all invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked if they discussed any of these allegations with Martin. See, Generally, Depositions of Burge, Byrne, et. al.

24. In a memo dated October 24, 1984, which was addressed to OPS supervisors, OPS Director David Fogel directed that they submit reports listing allegations of the use of electric shocking devices by Chicago police during the last 12 month period.

25. In an October 29, 1984 memo to Fogel, OPS Supervisor Ann Peterson set forth two cases of electric shock.

26. In her October 29, 1984 memo to Fogel, one of the cases which Peterson described was “CR# 136454 (Inv. Folan) Unknown date in January of 1984, location: Area 2 Headquarters.”

27. In her October 29, 1984 memo to Fogel, Peterson further described “CR# 136454 as follows: “Description of device: There are two complainants, Leonard Kidd and Leroy Orange. Kidd described the device as a “small black box with a cord sticking out with a piece of metal extending from the cord” Kidd describes the device as a “black box the size of a battery re-charger. It has a plug and a silver piece that is flexible and comes to a point with a silver nipple on it.”

28. In her October 29, 1984 memo to Fogel, Peterson further described the Orange and Kidd complaint (“CR# 136454) as follows:
“Allegations: Kidd and Orange were arrested for four charges of murder. There (sic) has publicized in the papers. Most of the publicity has related to the murders, but some has had the black bx as the subject. Kidd and Orange have made a multitude of allegations against officers (the accused have not been determined as of yet). However, they both alleged that in order to extract confessions, a black electrical device was used on them. 8

29. In her October 24 memo to Fogel, Peterson listed the second case as “CR # 141003 (Inv. Montgomery), date of incident: 16 Sept. 1984, location of incident, 20th district station, description of device, nightstick they use on dogs or animals/gives off electrical shock.”

30. Peterson further wrote in her October 24 memo to Fogel that the complainant alleged that he was “prodded several times with an electrical device,” the allegations were against two of the arresting officers, the arresting officers were from Unit 701, and that “it should be noted that CR #141536 (being investigated by Inv. Ortiz) has one of the same officers as the accused.”

31. By memo dated October 27, 1984, OPS Supervisor Frederick Smith responded to OPS Director Fogel’s memorandum of October 24, 1984.

32. In his October 27, 1984 memo to Fogel, Supervisor Smith listed three additional “complaint register investigations with an allegation of electrical shocking devices.”

33. In his October 27, 1984 memo to Fogel, Supervisor Smith first listed CR #134723, Date of incident: 2 November 1983, location unknown, Allegation: The victim, Darrell Cannon, related he was arrested in his home for murder, and then transported to an unknown location where he was cattle prodded between the legs.”

34. Reports in Complaint Register File #134723 establish that the accused officers in this complaint included Area 2 Sergeant John Byrne and Area 2 detectives Charles Grunhard and Peter Dignan.

35. In his October 27, 1984 memo to Fogel, Supervisor Smith also listed CR # 141164, date of incident: 22 September 1984, location - - -Montrose and Clark - - -20th District Station: Allegation: “The complainant alleged that during his arrest, he was beaten about the head and body, and then cattle prodded between the legs.” 9

36. In his October 27, 1984 memo to Fogel, Supervisor Smith also listed CR # 141638, Date: 17 October 1984, Location: Homan and Clark (Inside of a squad car), Allegation: the victim . . .alleged that during questioning by three white plainclothes officers he was poked in the stomach with an object that resembled the butt of a gun, this device gave him an electric shock

37. In a memo to Fogel dated October 24, 1984, Supervisor William Zylstra responded to Fogel’s memo of the same date as follows: The above reporting officer does not recall reviewing any cases regarding electric shocking equipment, especially during the last twelve months. However, prior to the above mentioned time, the above reporting supervisor recalls a case where Lt. Jon Burge, Unit 622 (Area 2) was accused of shocking a murder suspect into a confession. The matter was handled by the Office of Professional Standards but the other data is unknown.

38. In his memo to Fogel dated October 24, 1984, Supervisor William Zylstra further stated: “The above reporting supervisor suggests that Mr. Fogel assign an individual to peruse the Complaint register book for the amount of time desired, in order to obtain a more accurate account of the incidents in question.”

39. By memo dated October 26, 1984, OPS Supervisor R. Mankovich responded to
OPS Director Fogel’s memorandum of October 24, 1984, reporting CR # 141775, date of incident: 22 October, 1984, location: 1640 N. Kimball, Allegation: “Victim stated that during the course of his arrest, a male/white uniformed officer shocked him several times about the body with a small black handheld electrical shocking device.”

40. By memo dated October 25, 1984, OPS Supervisor Jose Ortiz responded to
OPS Director Fogel’s memorandum of October 24, 1984, reporting CR # 141536, date of incident: 12 October, 1984, location: 1117 W. Lawrence, Allegation: 10 That in the process of being searched by the arresting officers, he was struck with a long black flashlight on the side and with an unknown electrical device in the back. The victim was unable to describe this device because he could not see it. [He] stated that he received a shock when struck with this device and heard a humming sound. Victim’s injury(ies) (sic) were photographed.

41. By memo dated October 28, 1984, OPS Supervisor John Buchanan responded to
OPS Director Fogel’s memorandum of October 24, 1984, reporting CR # 135552, location: 1st District Station, Date of incident: October 28, 1983, Allegation: The complainant alleged that he was arrested by two officers in plainclothes and taken to the 001 District. The officers were writing up the charges for him and he was handcuffed and he looked down to see what the officer was writing. He was punched in the face by this officer about eight or nine times. Another officer came in and both officers struck him about the head, eyes, and face a total of about seventy to eighty times. One police
officer put something like an electrical wire in his left ear causing the ear to be damaged.
42. In a memo of November 5, 1984 which was addressed to Superintendent Fred Rice,David Fogel wrote: “the following is a list of Complaint Register Investigations involving the use of electrical shocking devices during the past twelve month period.”

43. In this memo of November 5, 1984, addressed to Superintendent Fred Rice,
Fogel listed CR #134723, Date: 2 November 1983, Location: Area 2 Auto Pound, Allegation: “Mr. Darrell Cannon was arrested in his home for murder, and then transported to an unknown location where he was cattle prodded in his mouth and testicles.”

44. In this memo of November 5, 1984, addressed to Superintendent Fred Rice,
Fogel also listed CR # 135552, location: 1st District Station, Date of incident: October 28, 1983, Allegation: “[The complainant] alleged that he was arrested, handcuffed, punched in the face several times and struck in the head, eyes, and face several more times. Further it is alleged that an electrical wire was placed in his left ear causing damage to his ear. 11

45. In this memo of November 5, 1984, addressed to Superintendent Fred Rice, Fogel also listed CR # 141003, Date: 16 September 1984, Location: 20th District Station, Allegation: “[The complainant] alleged that he was prodded several times with an electrical device that looked like a nightstick they use on dogs or animals and gives off electrical shock”. Accused: P.O Robert T. Phillips, Star #12045, Unit 020; P.O. John J Murphy, Star 5315, Unit 020.

46. In this memo of November 5, 1984, addressed to Superintendent Fred Rice, Fogel also listed CR # 141164, Date: 22 September 1984, location: Montrose and Clark and 20th District Station: Allegation: [Complainant] alleged that when several police approached him, they slapped him in the face without saying a word, and “cattle pronged” him with an object between his legs. While at
the district station, he alleged that he was “pronged” repeatedly, his hands were stepped on, his head was banged against the wall and his hair was pulled.
Accused: PO James C. Leyden, star #12038, Unit 661, Michael P. Adkins, Unit 661.

47. In this memo of November 5, 1984, addressed to Superintendent Fred Rice, Fogel also listed CR # 141536, Date: 12 October, 1984, Location: 1117 W. Lawrence, Allegation: [Complainant] alleged that, in during process of being searched, he was struck with a long black flashlight on the side and was also struck with an unknown electrical device in the back. He received a shock from the humming electrical device. Accused: PO Lon J. Nigro, star #11177, Unit 701; PO Timothy W. Monahan, Star #15454, Unit 701; PO Russell Schaeffer, Star #10125, Unit 701.

48. In this memo of November 5, 1984, addressed to Superintendent Fred Rice, Fogel also listed CR # 141638, Date: 17 October 1984, Location: Homan and Chicago (Inside of a squad car) (11th District) Allegation: “[the complainant] alleged that he was poked in the stomach with an object resembling the butt of a gun which gave him an electric shock.” 12

49. In this memo of November 5, 1984, addressed to Superintendent Fred Rice, Fogel also listed CR # 141775, Date: 22 October, 1984, Location: 14th District Station Interview Room, Allegation: “[Victim] stated that, during the course of his arrest, a male/white uniformed officer shocked him several times about the body with a small black handheld electrical rod shocking device.”

50. In this memo of November 5, 1984, addressed to Superintendent Fred Rice, Fogel also listed CR# 139503, Date: 6 June 1984, Location: 20th district Interview Room, Allegation: [complainant] was allegedly struck with unknown objects; Accused: P.O Robert T. Phillips, Star #12045, Unit 020; P.O. John J Murphy, Star 5315, Unit 020.

51. At David Fogel’s deposition on July 26, 1989 in the case of Andrew Wilson v. City of Chicago, 86-C-2360, he testified that he maintained a file (hereinafter referred to as the Fogel electric shock file) in which he kept CR’s related to electric shock.

52. The documents described in paragraphs above were included in this file.

53. Additionally, documents which contained the additional allegations of electric shock were also contained in the Fogel file: CR # Date Location Alleged victim Accused officers CR# 143912 2/20/85 11th Dist. [Deleted] [Deleted} [Deleted] CR# 152158 4/8/86 19th Dist [Deleted] [Deleted]
CR# 154619 2/1/87 9th Dist [Deleted]

54. During Fogel’s July 26, 1989 deposition, a lawyer for Andrew Wilson, who was conducting the deposition, requested production of Fogel’s file.

55. Lawyers for the City of Chicago refused to produce this file. 13

56. At the Chicago City Council Police Torture Hearings, held on December 24, 1990, counsel for Andrew Wilson publicly informed the members of the committee conducting the Hearings about Mr. Fogel’s electric shock file, and requested that the Committee conducting the Hearings obtain these documents. City Council Hearing, 12/24/90, p. 36.

57. Neither this file nor the documents contained therein were produced by the City, the Police Department, or the OPS to the City Council or the Committee hearing the torture allegations, nor did the City Council nor the Committee obtained the file or the documents contained therein.

58. On or about August 11, 1992, in the case entitled Gregory Banks v. Burge, Byrne, City of Chicago, et. al., 91-C-6470, Plaintiff Gregory Banks served upon the City of Chicago Plaintiff’s First Request to Produce which requested in paragraph 11 production of “the CR files, summaries, and any other information concerning of (sic) all other torture and electric shock victims known to the defendant, including, but not limited to, those which former OPS director David Fogel collected and monitored while he was head of OPS.”

59. On or about September 11, 1992, the City, through Assistant Corporation Counsel Margaret Carey, formally responded to this request as follows: “the City has not located any documents pertaining to “known” victims of torture as described in Request # 11.

60. Neither the Fogel electric shock file, nor any documents contained therein, were produced by the City, the Police Department, the OPS, or Ms. Carey at any time during the pendency of his case to Plaintiff Banks or his lawyers.

61. On or about March 15, 1993, in the case entitled Marcus Wiggins v. Burge, Byrne, City of Chicago, et. al., 93 C- 199, Plaintiff Wiggins served upon the City of Chicago Plaintiff’s 14 First Request to Produce to All Defendants which requested in paragraph 11 production of “the CR files, summaries, and any other information concerning all other torture and electric shock victims known to the defendant, including, but not limited to, those which former OPS director David Fogel collected and monitored while he was head of OPS.”

62. On or about April 15, 1996, in a letter to the City seeking compliance with Request #11, Plaintiff Wiggins, through counsel, stated “as to the materials identified by former OPS Director Fogel in his deposition, he left these materials in his official OPS files when he left employment in 1990; hence those materials are clearly defined, not accessible to Plaintiff, but
rather remain in your files.”

63. On or about May 16, 1996, the City, through Assistant Corporation Counsel Carey, formally responded by letter to the request for compliance concerning the Fogel File as follows: “I am attempting to see if, in fact, your assertions are correct as to whether David Fogel left these materials at OPS. If you have any information concerning how you know he left the records at
OPS, it might assist the City in locating any such files. Once I have received this information, I will let you know what the City can or cannot produce.”

64. On or about May 23, 1996, in another letter to the City seeking compliance with Request # 11, Plaintiff Wiggins, through counsel, stated: “Former OPS Director Fogel testified that he left these documents in his file at OPS when he left at a deposition taken in Fallon and incorporated in this and other Monell cases on September 24, 1992, at pages 637-8. (See Attachment).”

65. In May, 1996, Ms. Carey, by letter, requested that the Police Department search for the Fogel electric shock file. 15

66. On or about July 9, 1996, the City, through Assistant Corporation Counsel Carey, formally again responded by letter to the request for compliance concerning the Fogel electric shock file as follows:”The City has been unable to locate the files plaintiff claims were maintained by Fogel, however we are continuing to look. Consequently, to date and to the extent possible, the City has complied with this request.

67. Neither the Fogel electric shock file, nor any documents contained therein, were produced by the City, the Police Department, the OPS, or Ms. Carey at any time during the pendency of his case to Plaintiff Wiggins or his lawyers.

68. On or about August 11, 2004, the Fogel file and some or all of the documents contained therein was produced by the City to the lawyers for Plaintiffs Patterson, Orange, Hobley and Howard in a Box labeled Box 2.

69. Neither the Fogel electric shock file, nor any documents contained therein, were produced by the City, the Police Department, the OPS, or Ms. Carey at any time to Plaintiff Patterson, to Leroy Orange, Darrell Cannon, Stanley Howard, Madison Hobley, or any of their lawyers, the Cook County State’s Attorney or any Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney, to any criminal defendant, civil Plaintiff, or their lawyers prior to August 11, 2004.

70. In 1988, shortly after shortly after Leroy Martin became Superintendent, he transferred Burge from his post as Commander of the Bomb and Arson Unit back to the Detective Division as Commander of Area 3.

71. Also in 1988, Burge requested that Martin intervene with the City Council Finance Committee to obtain private council at the City’s expense to represent him in the Wilson civil trial, and Martin conveyed his request. Letters of 8/23/88 and 10/25/88. 16

72. The City Council approved Burge’s request, William Kunkle, Richard Devine, and their law firm was selected by Burge, and the City paid them approximately $1 million dollars to represent Burge for the next eight years. Letters of 8/23/88 and 10/25/88, Payment Records, Phelan, Pope and John.

73. After Martin transferred Burge to Area 3, key members of Burge’s torture squad - - -including Sergeant Byrne, and Detectives Paladino, Maslanka and Mc Weeny - - - also transferred to Area 3 and allegations of torture began to proliferate there. Plaintiff’s Listing of Known Burge, Area 2 and 3 Torture Victims, 1972-1991.

74. From 1981, when State’s Attorney Daley assumed office, until the end of 1988, when he left office to run for Mayor, approximately 55 victims had alleged torture at Area 2, many allegedly tortured statements had been taken by his assistants, and many motions to suppress where Area 2 torture was alleged had been defended by his office, yet neither Daley nor the SAO initiated any investigations or brought any criminal charges against Burge or any of his men. Id.

75. On July 26, 1989, Mary Powers on behalf of Citizens Alert and several other community groups wrote to OPS Director David Fogel requesting that OPS “reopen an investigation into torture and other abuses by commander Jon Burge,” and that he “support our recommendation that the Chicago Police Board conduct open public hearings into patterns of torture by some members of the Chicago Police Department dating back at least 16 years.” Powers Letter of 7/26/89.

76. In the Powers letter of July 26, 1989, she specifically cited the allegations made by Melvin Jones that he was electric shocked and otherwise abused in February of 1982. Id. 17

77. Neither the OPS nor the CPD opened an investigation into Melvin Jones’ allegations of torture in response to this letter or at any other time.

78. On August 17, 1989, Mary Powers, and other community activists appeared before the Police Board and, in Superintendent Martin”s presence, detailed evidence of a pattern of torture at Area 2 which had come out in the Wilson civil trials, including a description of the torture device, and the finding by the Wilson Jury that there was a pattern and practice of abuse at Area 2, and demanded that a broad investigation be conducted, and that Burge be suspended pending the results of the investigation. Police Board Proceedings, 8/17/89.

79. On September 14, 1989, Mary Powers, and other community activists again
appeared before the Police Board and, in Superintendent Martin”s presence, again raised the torture evidence and the demand that Burge be fired. Superintendent Martin responded by stating: “Commander Burge is working, as far as I know, he’ll be working Ms. Powers. I have no reason to suspend Commander Burge. You want him suspended. I have no reason to suspend
him at this time.” Police Board Proceedings, 9/14/89, pp. 90-91.

80. In September and October of 1989, the City Council held several days of Hearings into police brutality and torture, at which Mayor Daley gave a statement, and Superintendent Martin and OPS Director Fogel attended and testified. City Council Hearings, September 28-; October 6, 10, 11 1989.

81. Mayor Daley made the following statement to the Committee at the Hearings:
“Superintendent Leroy Martin was . . . reappointed by me. He has complete responsibility over the Chicago Police Department. I have full confidence in his administration. He has done an outstanding job.” City Council Hearing, 9/28/89, p. 4.

82. At the hearing, torture at Area 2 was presented through the testimony of Stanley Howard’s mother, OPS Director Fogel was questioned about Burge, electric shock, and 18 baggings at Area 2, Martin was also asked about Howard’s torture, and he promised to look into it. Hearing, 9/29/89, pp 172-215, 10/6/89, pp. 187-96, and 10/10/89, pp. 392-400.

83. On November 30, 1989, Mary Powers, and other community activists again
appeared before the Police Board and, in Superintendent Martin’s presence, again raised the torture evidence and the demand that Burge be fired. Superintendent Martin responded by stating: that he wished the activists would follow up on cases where police officers are shot “the way you are following up on the Burge case and see to it that justice is done to the person who
took my officer’s life.” Police Board Proceedings, 11/30/89, pp. 19-25.

84. On December 24, 1990, the City Council held Christmas Eve hearings, chaired by Finance Committee Chairman Ed Burke, on the question of police torture at Area 2 during which several witnesses presented numerous allegations of police torture at Area 2. City Council. Hearing, 12/24/90.

85. At the Chicago City Council Hearings held in December 24, 1990, counsel for Andrew Wilson tendered the Committee and its counsel, a 21 page document entitled “Fact Sheet: Evidence of Police Torture By Commander Jon Burge and His Men.”

86. The “Fact Sheet: Evidence of Police Torture By Commander Jon Burge and His
Men” which was tendered by counsel for Andrew Wilson to the Committee and its counsel at the Chicago City Council Hearings held on December 24, 1990, listed more than thirty victims of alleged torture at Area 2, including Aaron Patterson, Madison Hobley, Stanley Howard, and Leroy Orange.

87. At the Christmas Eve hearing, evidence that SA Daley refused to investigate when requested to do so by Superintendent Brzeczek. was presented, and Daley responded publicly, with his office stating that “Andrew Wilson refused to testify before the grand jury about the 19 allegations.” Chicago Tribune, 12/25/90, “Hearing Examines Brutality Charges;” Chicago Sun Times, 12/25/90, “Davis Urges New Review of Police Brutality Cases.”

88. The “Fact Sheet: Evidence of Police Torture By Commander Jon Burge and His
Men” which listed more than thirty victims of alleged torture at Area 2, including Aaron Patterson, Madison Hobley, Stanley Howard, and Leroy Orange, was tendered by counsel for Andrew Wilson to Superintendent Leroy Martin on or about December 19, 1990.

89. In a letter dated January 9, 1991, OPS Director Gayle Shines wrote to counsel for Andrew Wilson that “Superintendent Martin has referred to me your letter of 19 December and the attached Fact Sheet.”

90. The City Council or its Finance committee never issued a report or took any other action after the December 24th torture hearings.

91. On January 28, 1991, Amnesty International issued a Report calling for “a full inquiry into allegations that Chicago police systematically tortured criminal suspects from 1972 to 1984,” and in response, the spokesman for Mayor Daley said she had “‘no comment whatsoever.’” Chicago Sun Times, 1/28/91, “Police Torture Probe Sought Here.”

92. On or about November 2, 1990 OPS Director Gayle Shines approved as
“compelling” and forwarded to Superintendent Martin the 25 page Report and findings made by OPS investigator Michael Goldston concerning allegations of torture and abuse at Area 2. This Report included the following findings:
As to the matter of alleged physical abuse, the preponderance of the evidence is that abuse did occur and that it was systematic. The time span involved covers more than ten years. The type of abuse described was not limited to the usual beating, but went into such esoteric areas as psychological techniques and planned torture. The evidence presented by some individuals convinced juries and appellate courts that personnel assigned to Area 2 engaged in methodical abuse. 20 The number of incidents in which an Area 2 command member is identified as an accused can lead to only one conclusion. Particular command members were aware of the systematic abuse and participated in it either by actively participating in same or failing to take any action to bring it to an end. This conclusion is also supported by the number of incidents in which Area 2 offices are named as the location of the abuse.
OPS Special Project Conclusion Reports and Findings, and Cover Letter, Shines to Martin, dated November 2, 1990 (Goldston Report).

93. In her forwarding memo of November 2, 1990, OPS Director Shines, while
approving the conclusions of Goldston and Sanders, further informed Superintendent Martin that they both did “a masterful job of marshaling the facts in this intensive and extensive project and their conclusions are compelling.” 11/2/90 Cover Memo, Shines to Martin, with OPS Special Project Conclusion Reports and Findings enclosed.

94. On or about November 2, 1990, OPS Director Gayle Shines approved “as
compelling” and forwarded to Superintendent Martin the 66 page report and conclusions of OPS investigator Francine Sanders which found that based on “the overwhelming body of evidence which supports the allegations” that administrative charges of excessive force should be sustained against Jon Burge and John Yucaitis including that they “repeatedly administered electrical stimulation to Mr [Andrew] Wilson’s body in order to create pain” and that Burge “held Mr. Wilson, while handcuffed, against a hot radiator causing burns to Mr. Wilson’s face, chest and thigh.” Chicago Police Office of Professional Standards (OPS) Special Investigative Report and Findings, October 26, 1990 (Sanders Report), pp.62-66.

95. Martin acknowledged the “ serious nature” of Goldston’s conclusions Martin memo to Shines, 11/18/90.

96. At no time from receiving the Goldston Report in November of 1990 until he left 21 office in April of 1992, did Martin, OPS Director Shines, or any other City policymaking official take any steps to further investigate the allegations made by the some fifty victims listed in the Goldston report.

97. Instead, Martin, after waiting three months, wrote Shines seeking “further
clarification” concerning the Goldston and Sanders Reports. Memo, Martin to Shines, 2/6/91.

98. Despite all of the torture evidence contained in the Goldston and Sanders Reports, in the Fact Sheet, and that was previously presented to Martin and the City Council, the City and Martin did not seek the prosecution of Burge and his confederates in the Wilson case, for a continuing conspiracy on the basis of the numerous other torture cases listed in the Goldston report, or to prosecute Burge for the numerous other cases which were documented in the
evidence presented, including the Patterson and Madison Hobley cases.

99. In her April 30, 1991 memorandum to Martin, Shines supplied the “clarifications” sought by Martin, and informed him that the OPS findings “reflect the unprecedented comprehensiveness of this investigation.” Shines memo, 4/30/91.

100. With her April 30, 1991 memorandum to Superintendent Martin, OPS Director
Shines included investigator Goldston’s clarification memo, in which Goldston set forth that his investigation established that Area 2 detectives and supervisors Jon Burge, John Byrne, Peter Dignan, Charles Grunhard, John Yucaitis, Thomas McKenna, and Patrick O’Hara were “players”
whose names “repeatedly appeared as connected to allegations of abuse.” Goldston Memo of 4/30/91, attached to Shines Memo to Martin of the same date.

101. After waiting an additional seven months, in November of 1991, Superintendent Leroy Martin approved the findings set forth in the Chicago Police Office of Professional 22 Standards (OPS) Special Investigative Report and Findings, dated October 26, 1990 (Sanders Report), Burge and Yucaitis were administratively charged by the CPD for abusing Andrew Wilson in the manner found in the Report, and separation proceedings were initiated before the
Chicago Police Board. Cr 123543 (reopened).

102. However, after secret communications with Corporation Counsel Kelly Welch, which the City still refuses to produce, Martin refused to accept or adopt the Goldston findings, open any additional criminal or administrative investigations into the numerous allegations of Area 2 torture, to commission additional investigation into the alleged systemic pattern and practice of torture, or to discipline or seek criminal charges against any of the named officers, but rather contacted the Police Foundation in order to have them evaluate the methodology used by Goldston in arriving at his findings. Martin Letter to Williams, 11/8/91; City Privilege Log.

103. During this time period, community groups, including Citizen’s Alert, by letters and in face to face meetings, were demanding that Martin release the results of the OPS investigation into torture at Area 2. Powers Letter to Martin, 8/14/91.

104. Instead, Martin, through his lawyers at the Corporation Counsel’s Office, fought production and public release of the Goldston Report and its findings. See, generally, proceedings in Fallon v. Dillon, 90 C 6722.

105. In November of 1991, after Defendant Martin and Corporation Counsel Kelly
Welsh had initiated proceedings before the Police Board to fire Burge, Yucaitis and O’Hara for torturing Andrew Wilson, Mayor Daley “defended his decision not to take action against the officers when he was state’s attorney in 1982, explaining that . . [Wilson] refused to cooperate with his office at that time.” Chicago Tribune, 11/26/91 “3 Cops Face Hearing in Torture Case.” 23

106. On or about February 7, 1992, the Goldston and Sanders were publicly released, over the City’s strenuous objection, pursuant to the order of Judge Milton Shadur in the case of Fallon v. Dillon, #90-C-6722.

107. In an article which appeared in the February 8, 1992 Chicago Tribune,
Superintendent Leroy Martin, whgo was one of the previous Area 2 Commanders, was quoted as saying that it was an “outright lie” that Area 2 commanders knew about or condoned torture. Chicago Tribune, “13 Years of Cop Torture Alleged,” February 8, 1992.

108. In the same article, Mayor Richard M. Daley was quoted as saying of the Report, “these are only allegations . . . not substantiated cases,” as defending Martin’s suppression of the report, stating: “it’s allegations, rumors, stories, things like that” and of denying that the torture
at Area 2 was “systematic.” Chicago Tribune, 2/8/92, “13 Years of Cop Torture Alleged;” Los Angeles Times, 2/8/92, “Chicago Police Used Torture Report Says,”

109. In their Memorandum In Opposition To Motion To Bar Testimony Concerning
Other Alleged Victims of Police Misconduct, filed on January 22, 1992 before the Police Board in the Matter of Charges Filed against Respondents Jon Burge, John Yucaitis and Patrick O’Hara, Cases # 1856-58, specially appointed City of Chicago lawyers, on behalf of Chicago Police Superintendent Leroy Martin and the City of Chicago, made the following judicial admission concerning the testimony of “seven additional victims of torture tactics at Area II
headquarters:” The testimony regarding similar acts sets forth detailed accounts of tortuous treatment that are almost identical to the torture suffered by Andrew Wilson. The testimony reveals an astounding pattern or plan on the part of respondents [Burge, Yucaitis and O’Hara] to torture certain suspects, often with substantial criminal records, into confessing to crimes
or to condone such activity. 24 Memorandum In Opposition To Motion To Bar Testimony Concerning Other Alleged Victims of Police Misconduct, p. 1.

110. In their Memorandum In Opposition, specially appointed City of Chicago lawyers,
on behalf of Superintendent Leroy Martin and the City of Chicago, identified the “seven
additional victims of torture tactics at Area II headquarters” as Melvin Jones, Anthony Holmes,
George Powell, Donald White, Shadeed Mumin, Leroy Orange, and Lawrence Poree. Id., pp. 7-
14.
111. In their Memorandum In Opposition, specially appointed City of Chicago lawyers,
on behalf of Martin and the City, made the following judicial admission - - - that the similar acts
testimony of Melvin Jones, Anthony Holmes, George Powell, Donald White, Shadeed Mumin,
Leroy Orange, and Lawrence Poree
[I]s highly probative of the modus operandi used or condoned in the torturing of suspects
to elicit statements. Respondents [Burge, Yucaitis and O’Hara’s] methods of torture
through electric shock, bagging, and holding a gun to a suspect’s head are more that
sufficiently unique to establish a modus operandi for 404 b purposes. In addition, the
testimony establishes a pattern of and plan to torture these suspects in these similar ways
to elicit confessions to violent crimes.
Id. p. 17.
112. In their Memorandum In Opposition, specially appointed City of Chicago lawyers,
on behalf of Martin and the City, judicially admitted that the similar acts testimony of Melvin
Jones, Anthony Holmes, George Powell, Donald White, Shadeed Mumin, Leroy Orange, and
Lawrence Poree:
clearly establishes respondents’ [Burge, Yucaitis and O’Hara’s] motive and intent in
torturing or condoning the torture of Wilson. Respondents generally engaged in these
similar practices in order to coerce a confession to a serious crime.
Id. p. 22. 25
113. In their Memorandum In Opposition, specially appointed City of Chicago lawyers,
on behalf of Martin and the City, judicially admitted that the similar acts testimony of Melvin
Jones, Anthony Holmes, George Powell, Donald White, Shadeed Mumin, Leroy Orange, and
Lawrence Poree:
shows the physical existence of one or more electric shock devices at Area II, prior to
and subsequent to Wilson’s arrest, and Burge’s possession of and familiarity with the use
of the devices. It is also admissible to show knowledge of that technique and of the
bagging technique, about which respondents deny knowing, and the technique of putting
a gun to the head of a victim.
Id., p. 24.
114. In their Memorandum In Opposition, specially appointed City of Chicago lawyers,
on behalf of Martin and the City, made the following judicial admission:
There is no question that the similarities between [Andrew] Wilson’s testimony
and the similar victims’ testimony is more than sufficient to meet the 404 b standard.
Burge was the main perpetrator of the torture in almost all of the cases, and, when he was
not the principal, he was still involved. In the case of all but one of the victims, the
victim was picked up and taken to Area II where he was then interrogated regarding his
knowledge or involvement in a serious offense. Although Donald White was taken
instead to Area I, he was taken there and interrogated by Area II detectives. All of the
victims were black and generally had significant criminal histories.
Also similar was the way in which several victims were threatened with
consequences if they refused to make a statement. After an initial refusal, the
punishment would begin and then would become stronger and more painful as the
refusals to speak persisted. The most striking similarities, however, are found in the
methods of torture used on the suspects. Wilson was electro shocked by Yucaitis using
the black box and by Burge who used the black box and a curling-iron looking device,
was “bagged” and beaten, and was threatened with a gun placed in his mouth. Jones,
Holmes, Poree, Powell and Orange were similarly electro shocked by Burge. Holmes,
Powell, White and Mumin were all “bagged” and beaten to the point where they lost or
almost lost consciousness. Burge pointed a cocked gun at Jones’s head, hit Poree in the
head with a pistol, and placed a revolver containing one bullet at Mumin’s head and
snapped it three times slowly. White had a gun placed in his mouth. Additionally, each
of the victims was slapped around and punched.
Burge’s statements to the victims were also very similar. Burge told both Jones
and Mumin that nobody would ever believe their word against his. As he did in relation
to Wilson, he referred to the absence of marks on Mumin’s body. He said “fun time” as 26
he approached Wilson and Poree with the black box, and laughed when he bagged
Mumin. He told Wilson he would “fry his black ass” and Jones he would “blow his
black head off.”
As the case law cited above aptly demonstrates, these actions or the condoning of
these actions are overwhelming in their similarity.
Id., pp. 25-26.
115. In their Memorandum In Opposition, specially appointed City of Chicago lawyers,
on behalf of Chicago Police Superintendent Leroy Martin and the City of Chicago, made the
following judicial admission:
Given the similarities between the serious offenses charged and the offenses to which the
similar victims will testify, there is no question that the offenses are close enough in time
to be relevant to this case. Tak[ing] the offenses in sequence, they reveal a pattern of
almost identical acts of torture directed towards persons suspected of violent crimes.
While the sequence spans twelve years, each offense is close enough to the next to
connect it to the relevant pattern of behavior. Moreover, Melvin Jones’ and Donald
White’s testimony will demonstrate that they were tortured just days before Andrew
Wilson was tortured.
Id., p. 28.
116. In their Memorandum In Opposition, specially appointed City of Chicago lawyers,
on behalf of Leroy Martin and the City of Chicago, judicially admitted:
Indeed, as the testimony of the similar victims shows, respondents [Burge, Yucaitis and
O’Hara] counted on the fact that their testimony would be believed over that of a convict
when they persisted in their pattern of torture.
Id., p. 28.
117. In a document filed in the case of Wilson v. City of Chicago, Jon Burge, Patrick
O’Hara and John Yucaitis, 86-C-2360, entitled “City of Chicago’s Memorandum in Response
To Plaintiff Andrew Wilson’s Motion for Summary Judgment,” the City, through its lawyers,
made the following judicial admission:
Plaintiff Andrew Wilson has testified that he was beaten, kicked, punched, burned by
being harnessed to a radiator, and repeatedly electro shocked on his hands, face, ears, and 27
between his legs by defendant police officers. Plaintiff now seeks summary judgment that
this outrageous conduct, unsanctioned and condemned by the City, and for which
defendant officers were fired and/or disciplined, was within the defendants’ scope of
employment.
City Memorandum in Response To Plaintiff Wilson’s Motion for Summary Judgment, p. 1.
118. In a document filed in the case of Wilson v. City of Chicago, 86-C-2360, entitled
“City of Chicago’s Memorandum in Response To Plaintiff Andrew Wilson’s Motion for
Summary Judgment,” the City, through its lawyers, made the following judicial admission:
The instrumentalities by which defendants tortured plaintiff also illustrate that defendant
officers were not in the scope of their employment. Plaintiff has failed to furnish any
evidence to suggest that the instruments used by the officers to shock him - - -the black
box device and the modified curling iron - - were furnished by the City.
Id., p. 17.
119. In its Memorandum in Response To Plaintiff Andrew Wilson’s Motion for
Summary Judgment,” the City, through its lawyers, made the judicial admission that
Burge “cruelly torture[d]” Andrew Wilson and “denie[d] him necessary medical
assistance.”
Id., p. 19.
120. In this Memorandum, the City, through its lawyers, made the following admission
concerning it change of position from defending Burge for his alleged torture of Andrew Wilson
to asserting that said torture was so outrageous as to be outside the scope of Burge’s
employment: “The change in the City’s position was the result of inquiries undertaken by the
City in good faith and in the public interest.” Id. p. 12.
121. On July 30, 1992, almost two years after Superintendent Martin had first received
the Goldston findings, the Police Foundation submitted its report to Superintendent of Police
Matt Rodriguez. After noting that because “hangings, shockings, ‘baggings’ beatings, chokings,
and beatings were alleged to occur, many in the Area 2 Headquarters itself, a thorough and
rigorous investigation seemed required,” and that it passed no judgment as to whether the torture
alleged had in fact took place, the Report criticized Goldston’s methodology. Police Foundation 28
Report, “An Analysis of the Methods Employed in the Preparation of the Goldston Report,”
7/30/92.
122. The Police Foundation recommended, inter alia, that the Chicago Police
Department investigate or re-investigate cases of serious misconduct listed in the Goldston
Report, create a database concerning these investigations, rigorously and uniformly investigate
them, and create a monitoring system to identify patterns of serious police misconduct. Id.
123. Almost three years after first receiving the Goldston Report, OPS Director Shines
reopened the Cannon, Howard, Adkins, Craft, Holmes, White and Michael Johnson cases and
assigned OPS investigators to them. Numerous other serious Area 2 torture cases, including
those of Plaintiff, Leroy Orange, Melvin Jones, Anthony Homes, George Powell, and Madison
Hobley, were not opened or reopened. Shines’ Dep. in Santiago v. Marquez; CRs of named
Victims.
124. Leroy Orange testified on May 22,1985, at his trial that on January 12, 1984 he
was taken to Area 2 and interrogated. During this interrogation, he was handcuffed behind his
back to a circle in the wall, a plastic bag was put over his head, and when the bag was put over
his head a second time he was punched in the stomach. People v. Orange, 5/22/85, pp. 1112-14.
125. Leroy Orange further testified that he was shocked on the arm with an electrical
device, and that an officer stuck his hands between his legs and squeezed his testicles. Id. at
1114; Affidavits of Leroy Orange.
126. Leroy Orange averred in ¶¶ 11-13 of an affidavit that he was interviewed in the
summer of 1990 by a male OPS investigator at Pontiac Correctional Center, and after reviewing
a stack of photographs, he identified Jon Burge as one of the detectives involved in his torture. 29
127. OPS Investigator Michael Goldston listed Orange as a victim tortured by Burge in
his 1990 OPS report. Goldston Report.
128. Detectives McWeeny and Madigan testified at Orange’s trial that they were
partners and they arrested Orange on January 12, 1984, and they transported him to Area 2
Headquarters where they locked him in an interview room, and the next day they conducted lineups with him. People v. Orange, pp. 615-17, 624,1232-34.
129. Leroy Orange stated at his bond hearing on January 14, 1984 that he had pin marks
on his butt, that was the only visible bruise he had to show, and that “other things happened.”
People v. Orange, Kidd, 1/14/84, p. 3.
130. Orange’s co-defendant, Leonard Kidd, also stated at the January 14th bond hearing
that he was hurting between his legs where the police jumped on him, and his lawyer also noted
on the record that Kidd was limping and that he came in injured. Id.
131. On February 9, 1984, Orange’s attorney told a reporter for the Chicago Sun Times
that officers administered electrical shocks to Orange’s buttocks and anus with a “black box.”
“Cop ‘black box’ torture charged,” Chicago Sun Times, 2/9/84.
132. In their Memorandum In Opposition, specially appointed City of Chicago lawyers,
on behalf of Chicago Superintendent Martin and the City of Chicago, judicially admitted that:
In January of 1984, Leroy Orange was taken to Area II where he was interrogated and
tortured while Burge was in the room. Orange was shocked and jolted repeatedly with a
black box plugged into the wall. Orange’s pants were pulled down while electroshock
was applied to his body, including his buttocks. He was then asked if he was ready to
make a statement, and he replied that he was. Orange reported this torture to his
attorney, Earl Washington, who reported it to the media..
Memorandum In Opposition, January 22, 1992, p. 13.
133. In February of 1984, the OPS registered a complaint, number 136454, alleging that 30
Jon Burge and others who allegedly tortured Leroy Orange on January 12 and 13, 1984.
134. The OPS entered a not sustained finding on these allegations without ever taking a
statement from Orange, Burge or any other Area 2 detective or supervisor.
135. The Chicago Police Department has since destroyed the OPS file in complaint
number 136454.
136. On or about September 24, 1979, the OPS registered complaint number 108817
alleging that George Powell was beaten and suffocated with a bag while being questioned at
Area 2, the OPS entered a not sustained finding on these allegations without ever taking a
statement from Powell, Burge, or any other Area 2 detective or supervisor, and the Chicago
Police Department has since destroyed the OPS file in complaint number 108817.
137. In their Memorandum In Opposition, specially appointed City of Chicago
lawyers, on behalf of Superintendent Leroy Martin and the City of Chicago, judicially admitted
that:
On September 20, 1979, George Powell was arrested at his girlfriend’s house and
taken to Area II where he was handcuffed to a wall. Burge brought in a long object with a
cord, similar to a cattle prod, and said he was go to do to Powell what he had done to
“Satan.” Burge shocked Powell on his stomach and chest, such that Powell almost passed
out. Also, while slapping ans questioning Powell, Burge put a bag over Powell’s head
and Powell had to bite a hole in it in order to breathe. Powell’s mother filed a complaint
with the office of Professional standards, who ultimately made a finding of not sustained.
Memorandum In Opposition, filed on January 22, 1992 in the Matter of Charges Filed against
Respondents Jon Burge, John Yucaitis and Patrick o’Hara, Cases # 1856-58, p. 9.
138. In a statement taken on June 14, 2004, George Powell stated that he was electric
shocked, suffocated with a plastic bag, and beaten by Jon Burge and other Area 2 detectives
during his interrogation in September of 1999. 31
139. On May 11, 1989, Andrew Wilson's lawyers in Wilson’s civil rights trial filed
"Plaintiff's Proffer of Other Acts of Beating, Torture and Electroshock By Defendant Burge and
Other Detectives." and served it on the City through counsel.
140. “Plaintiff’s Proffer “listed 19 alleged victims of Burge, Sergeant Byrne, and their
fellow Area 2 detectives.
141. “Plaintiff’s Proffer” listed Anthony “Satan” Holmes, stating:
Anthony Holmes, nicknamed “Satan, ” was taken to Area II headquarters at
approximately 4:00 a.m. Jon Burge presided over his interrogation, during which, in an
effort to obtain a confession, plastic bags were put over his head, causing him to pass out
three separate times. Burge also applied the end of an electric shock device, housed in a
black box, to Holmes’ handcuffs, giving Holmes an intense shock, and causing him to
fall out of his chair and roll on the floor.
142. In their Memorandum In Opposition, specially appointed City of Chicago lawyers,
on behalf of Leroy Martin and the City of Chicago, judicially admitted:
On May 30, 1973, at approximately 4:00 a.m., Anthony Holmes, whose street name is
“Satan,” was taken to Area II headquarters where he was held, interrogated and tortured
for approximately six hours. Respondent Burge presided over his interrogation, during
which, in an effort to obtain a confession, plastic bags were placed over Holmes’ head,
causing him to pass out three times. Burge also applied the end of an electric shock
device, housed in a black box, to Holmes’ handcuffs, giving Holmes an intense shock,
which caused him to fall out of his chair and roll on the floor. The shock was extremely
painful and caused Holmes to press his jaws together and grit his teeth.
Memorandum In Opposition filed on January 22, 1992, p. 9.
143. On April 19, 2004 Anthony Holmes gave a Court reported statement in which he
described the allegations made in Plaintiff’s Proffer in even greater detail.
144. Neither the OPS nor the CPD opened an investigation into Anthony Holmes’
allegations in response Plaintiff Wilson’s Proffer, in response to the City’s statements in their
January 22, 1992 Memorandum, or at any other time. 32
145. Plaintiff’s Proffer also listed Lawrence Poree, stating:
Lawrence Poree was interrogated on two occasions in 1973 by Burge and Hoke. The
first time they showed him a wooden box, with no top and a generator inside with two
wires. Burge said “this is what we got for niggers like you.” Later (that year) Burge and
Hoke put Poree, while handcuffed, on a table and hit him. They then pulled his pants
down and applied electric shock to his arm, testicles and under his armpits.
146. In their Memorandum In Opposition, specially appointed City of Chicago lawyers,
on behalf of Leroy Martin and the City of Chicago, judicially admitted that:
Lawrence Poree will testify that on two occasions in 1973, he was interrogated by
respondent Burge and another detective. The first time they showed him a wooden box
with no top, a generator inside, and two wires. Burge then said, “this is what we’ve got
for niggers like you.” Later in 1973, Burge and [detective] Hoke put Poree, while
handcuffed, on a table and hit him. They then pulled his pants down and applied
electroshock to his arm and armpits, and to his testicles.
On August 7, 1979, Poree was arrested and brought to Area II where he was
interrogated by Burge. Poree was handcuffed in the interrogation room, and the black
box was on the table. Burge came in and said, “fun time again.” Poree was handcuffed
to the wall and hit in the head with a pistol. Apparently referring to Anthony Holmes,
Burge said “You can ask your fat friend about the box.” Burge shocked Poree eight or
nine times on the arms, chest, forehead, and back, causing him to clench his teeth and
bite his tongue and his mouth to bleed.
(Memorandum In Opposition, January 22, 1992, pp. 13-14.
147. On April 19, 2004 Lawrence Poree gave a Court reported statement in which he
described the allegations which were made in Plaintiff’s Proffer in more detail.
148. Neither the OPS nor the CPD opened an investigation into Lawrence Poree’s
allegations either in response Plaintiff Wilson’s Proffer, in response to the January 22, 1992,
City Memorandum, or at any other time.
149. In U.S. ex. rel. Maxwell v. Gilmore, 1999 WL 130331 (N.D.Ill.) at *14; Judge
Shadur stated the following in his decision:
It is now common knowledge that in the early to mid-1980s Chicago Police Commander
Jon Burge and many officers working under him regularly engaged in the physical abuse 33
and torture of prisoners to extract confessions. Both internal police accounts and
numerous lawsuits and appeals brought by suspects alleging such abuse substantiate that
those beatings and other means of torture occurred as an established practice, not just on
an isolated basis.
150. At the May 13, 2003 oral argument in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in US
ex. rel. Leonard Hinton v. McArdory, Seventh Circuit Judge Diane Wood made the following statement
from the bench: “terrible things were happening in Area 2, things that should make us ashamed
of our police force and justice system.”
151. In Wilson v. City of Chicago, 120 F.3d 681, 683-85 (7th Cir. 1997), the Seventh
Circuit Court of Appeals held that Defendant Burge acted within the scope of his employment
with the City “when he tortured Wilson,” stating:
Burge was not pursuing a frolic of his own. He was enforcing the criminal law of Illinois
overzealously by extracting confessions from criminal suspects by improper means. He
was, as it were, too loyal an employee. He was acting squarely within the scope of his
employment.
152. OPS investigator Veronica [Tillman] Messenger was assigned to investigate the reopened Darrel Cannon OPS complaint (CR #134723) in May, 1993. CR # 134723, TillmanMessenger Testimony, People v. Cannon.
153. Pursuant to that investigation, she located the site Cannon had previously
described as the location where he had been allegedly tortured. Id.
154. This location was under a viaduct at 12409 S. Torrence, and Tillman-Messenger
had photographs taken of the site. Id.
155. OPS Investigator [Tillman] Messenger finished her investigation in January of
1994, and entered sustained findings against all three accused officers, finding that:
a) Sergeant Byrne struck Cannon with a cattle prod on his testicles and penis and in
his mouth; 34
b) Sergeant Byrne repeatedly called Cannon a “nigger;”
c) Sergeant Byrne held a 9 mm handgun to Cannon’s head;
e) Sergeant Byrne attempted to lift Cannon by the handcuffs;
d) Detective Dignan played Russian roulette with a shotgun with Cannon;
e) Detective Dignan attempted to lift Cannon by his handcuffs;
f) Detective Dignan put a shotgun to Cannon’s head;
g) Detective Grunhard lifted Cannon up while Byrne held onto the cuffs.
156. These findings in CR #134723 were approved by Ms. Messenger’s supervisor at
OPS, Carmen Christia. Id.
157. The reopened Cannon OPS file and the sustained findings were forwarded to OPS
Director Gayle Shines for her review sometime in 1994. Id.
158. Director Gayle Shines took no action on these findings from receipt of the findings
and file in 1994 until her leaving the post of Director in 1998, and kept the Cannon file and
findings in her office from receipt until her leaving. Shines Dep., Benefico Dep., Santiago v.
Marquez.
159. No Chicago police or City of Chicago official or employee, including, but not
limited to, Defendants Shines, Martin, Hillard, and Needham produced the reopened Cannon
file and the sustained findings contained therein to Mr. Cannon, Plaintiff Patterson, Leroy
Orange, Stanley Howard or their lawyers in their criminal cases from 1994 to 1999.
156. No Chicago police or City of Chicago official or employee, including, but not
limited to, Defendants Shines, Martin, Hillard, and Needham, produced the reopened Cannon
file and sustained findings to any other criminal defendant or his lawyers in his criminal case, or
to any Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney from 1994 to 1999.
157. This file and the findings, was further withheld, despite repeated discovery
demands, from several civil litigants alleging torture and abuse. See, e.g., Santiago v. Marquez, 35
Wiggins v. City of Chicago.
158. After Darrell Cannon presented evidence that he was tortured to the Illinois
Prisoner Review Board on August 27, 2004 and September 3, 2004 at his parole revocation
hearing, Board Chairman Jorge Montes was quoted in the September 10, 2004 Chicago Tribune
as saying that he was “‘inclined to believe’ Cannon’s claim that detectives working under
former police Cmdr John Burge extracted a confession from Cannon through torture” and that
“personally, I was inclined to believe there was torture.” Chicago Tribune, September 10,
2004.
159. After Darrell Cannon presented evidence that he was tortured to the Illinois
Prisoner Review Board on August 27, 2004 and September 3, 2004, Board Chairman Jorge
Montes was quoted in the September 10, 2004 Chicago Sun Times as saying “was there
credibility to the [torture] testimony? My inclination is to say ‘yes,’ Mr. Cannon may have been
tortured. We found it fairly credible.” Chicago Sun Times, September 10, 2004.
160. Philip Adkins testified at his deposition in his civil case that after he was arrested
on June 7, 1984, officers Ron Boffo, James Lotito and Peter Dignan transported him from his
home on the south side of Chicago to the vicinity of 53rd and Federal Streets, where they struck
him repeatedly about the genitals and abdomen with flashlights until he defecated on himself.
Adkins deposition, pp. 5, 13-17.
161. Sergeant John Byrne admitted that he was present at Adkins’ house when he was
arrested. Byrne Dep. p. 157; 1985 OPS Statement of John Byrne in CR 142201.
162. According to medical records, Adkins was transported to Area 2 and he eventually
was taken to Roseland Community Hospital where a urinalysis showed a trace of blood in his 36
urine. He was then immediately transferred to Cook County Hospital. Adkin’s Medical
Records from Roseland Community Hospital, CR 142201.
163. According to medical records, at Cook County Hospital Adkins was diagnosed
with multiple blunt trauma, and he complained of having been beaten by the police with
flashlights. Adkin’s Medical Records from Cook County Hospital, CR 142201.
164. On May 4, 1993, OPS re-opened an investigation into Adkins’ charges of abuse
and investigator Leutie Lawrence was assigned to investigate the charges. People v. Cannon,
9/24/99, p. 18.
165. During the course of the investigation, Adkins again identified Boffo, Lotito and
Dignan as the officers who had abused him on June 7, 1984. CR 142201, Attachment #141, AF, photographs of Lotito, Dignan and Boffo.
166. Adkins’ girlfriend Earlene Smalley, his brother Willie Adkins, and his sister Sarah
Adkins Woodson all gave statements to OPS that Adkins was not sick or injured prior to being
arrested on the morning of June 7, 1984. CR 142201.
167. Willie Cowyin, gave a statement to OPS in which he described seeing Adkins
naked and changing into different clothes after Adkins had been arrested. He further described
that Adkins looked as though he had been beaten up. Id.
168. On December 16, 1993 Office of Professional Standards investigator Leutie
Lawrence made the following sustained findings against Boffo, Lotito and Dignan:
a) Detective Boffo violated Rule 8, maltreatment of any person, by repeatedly
striking Adkins about the body and groin area with a flashlight on June 7, 1984;
b) Detective Lotito violated Rule 8, by striking Adkins repeatedly about the body
with a flashlight on June 7, 1984;
c) Detective Lotito violated Rule 14, making a false report, by stating to OPS that
he had seen injuries to Adkins prior to arresting Adkins while Adkins was in his 37
house the morning of June 7, 1984 and for falsely stating that Det. Boffo had not
been in the car while he was transporting Adkins;
d) Sergeant Dignan violated Rule 14, making a false report, for writing in a police
report dated June 15, 1984, and for stating to OPS on November 18, 1993, that
he had observed injuries to Adkins’ chest and torso while inside Adkins’ house
prior to his arrest on June 7, 1984.
.
Id.
169 The Adkins OPS file and the sustained findings were forwarded to OPS
Director Shines for her review sometime in 1994. Lawrence Testimony, People v. Cannon.
170. Director Gayle Shines took no action on these findings from receipt of the
findings and file in 1994 until her leaving the post of Director in 1998.and kept the Adkins file
and findings in her office from receipt until her leaving. Shines and Benefico depositions,
Santiago v. Marquez.
171. No Chicago police or City official or employee, including, but not limited to,
Defendants Shines, Martin, Hillard, and Needham, produced the Adkins file and the sustained
findings contained therein to Plaintiff Patterson, Darrell Cannon, Stanley Howard, Leroy
Orange Madison Hobley, or any of their lawyers in their criminal cases from 1994 to 1999.
172. No Chicago police or City official or employee, including, but not limited to,
Defendants Shines, Martin, Hillard, and Needham, produced the Adkins file and sustained
findings to any Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney or any other criminal defendant or his
lawyers in his criminal case from 1994 to 1999.
173. Gregory Banks testified that he was arrested on October 28, 1983, at
approximately 8:30 p.m. and transported to Area 2 at 111th and Ellis Streets. People v Cannon,
4/19/2000, p. 8-9.
174. Banks further testified that at approximately 2:30 a.m., while he was being 38
questioned by Detectives John Byrne, Peter Dignan and Charles Grunhard, Byrne pulled out a
chrome .45 and stuck it in Banks’ mouth, that after Banks refused to make a statement, Byrne
then struck Banks with a flashlight, knocking him out of a chair to the ground, and that while he
was laying on the ground with his hands cuffed behind his back, Grunhard kicked him in the
ankles and left side of his body. Id. at 12-13.
175. Banks’ further testified that, when he continued to refuse to make a statement,
Dignan took out a plastic bag, and stated to Banks “[w]e have something special for niggers,”
then he placed the bag over Banks’ head and held it there for 1 to 2 minutes during which time
Banks could not breathe. Id. at 14-15.
176. Banks further testified that all three officers left, and returned a few minutes
later, then, after Banks still refused to make a statement, Dignan again placed the bag over
Banks’ head and suffocated him, for approximately a minute, after which Banks, fearing for his
life, agreed to confess. Id. at 17-19.
177. Banks previously gave substantially the same testimony at his July 1, 1985 motion
to suppress hearing in People v. Banks.
178. Dr. John Raba, M.D., Medical Director of Cermak Health Services sent a letter
to the OPS dated November 14, 1983, requesting that OPS investigate allegations of excessive
force made by Gregory Banks. The letter further stated that Dr. Ross Romine, examining Banks
upon admission to Cook County Jail, noted multiple bruises on Banks’ body, evidence of
trauma on his chest, abdomen and legs and scabbed abrasions on his wrist compatible with
compression injuries caused by handcuffs. The letter also noted that Banks alleged that a
plastic bag was placed over his head by the Chicago police department while he was being 39
beaten, in an effort to extract a confession. CR #188617, Letter from Raba to OPS dated
11/14/83, Attachment #29.
179. Dr. Ross Romine, the doctor who examined Gregory Banks at Cook County Jail
on November 3, 1983, testified that Banks had told him he had been beaten and suffocated with
a plastic bag by Chicago police officers; that he found injuries on Banks’ body consistent with
what Banks had alleged, including scabs on both wrists, multiple scrapes and scratches over his
chest and abdomen, and a bruised, swollen muscle on his left side; that he further observed that
Banks’ chest area was swollen, discolored and tender and that there were scratches or scrapes
around one of his ankles in addition to bruises on both legs in the upper posterior section of the
upper thigh, and that the injuries on Banks’ chest appeared to have been caused by some blunt
object. People v. Banks, 6/13/85 p. 168, 172-74, 176.
180. OPS investigator Robert Cosey was assigned to re- investigate the allegations of
Banks when the OPS complaint register was re-opened in 1991. He closed the file in June,
1993, and entered findings of sustained against four accused officers, finding that:
a) Sergeant Byrne violated Rule 6 by failing to report to OPS the use of excessive
force against Gregory Banks;
b. Sergeant Byrne violated Rule 14 by making a false report by testifying falsely
before Judge Robert Sklodowski on June 3, 1985, that Gregory Banks was not
physically abused in police custody;
c. Sergeant Byrne violated Rule 8 by kicking Gregory Banks on October 29, 1983;
d Sergeant Byrne violated Rule 6 by failing to report to a supervisor the use of
excessive force against Banks;
e) Sergeant Byrne violated Rule 14 by making a false report by giving a false
statement to OPS that Banks was not injured while in police custody;
f) Detective Peter Dignan violated Rule 6 by failed to report to a supervisor the use
of excessive force against Banks;
g) Detective Peter Dignan violated Rule 14 by giving false information while
providing a statement to OPS about Banks;
h) Detective Robert Dwyer violated Rule 6 by failing to report to a supervisor the
use of excessive force against Banks; 40
i) Detective Robert Dwyer violated Rule 14 by giving false information while
providing a statement to OPS about Banks.
j) Detective Charles Grunhard violated Rule 8 by kicking Gregory Banks about the
body while he lay handcuffed on the floor during his interrogation;
k) Detective Charles Grunhard violated Rule 6 by failing to report to a supervisor
the use of excessive force against Banks;
l) Detective Charles Grunhard violated Rule 14 by giving false information while
providing a statement to OPS about Banks
CR 188617, Cosey Summary Report.
181. Shadeed Mumin testified on 5/13/87 at his motion to suppress hearing, that after
he was arrested on October 30, 1985, he was taken to Area 2 and placed in an interview room.
People v. Mumin, 5/13/87, p.45.
182. Mumin further testified that a man whom he identified as Lieutenant Burge
took him into his office, handcuffed him to a chair, took out his .44 magnum handgun, put one
bullet in it, spun the gun chamber around, put it to his [Mumin’s] head and pulled the trigger.
Id. at 49, 54.
183. Mumin further testified that Burge then grabbed a typewriter cover off a
typewriter, said “you will fucking talk or I’ll kill you” and then put the typewriter cover over his
head and held it until he passed out. Id. at 56.
184. Mumin further testified that the plastic typewriter cover was grey, made of vinyl,
and Burge attempted to suffocate him with it three times. (Id. at 57, 59, 75).
185. Mumin testified that Burge said to him “If you tell somebody, nobody will
believe you because there’s no marks on you and you better sign the fucking statement when
this attorney gets here tomorrow . . . If you don’t, you’ll get it even worse than what I did to
you now.” Id. at 60.
186. Investigator Veronica Tillman of the OPS did a preliminary investigation of the 41
Mumin’s allegations in 1993 and obtained gun registration documents which established that
Jon Burge had a 44 caliber 8 inch revolver registered to him on November 8, 1982 with the
registration number #0023212 and serial number N413937. People v. Cannon, Tr.11/2/99;
Mumin OPS File.
187. Area 2 Sergeant Sammy Lacey Jr. stated to Investigator Tillman on August 12,
1993 that Burge carried some type of revolver in October of 1985. OPS Statement of Sergeant
Sammy Lacey Jr. in Mumin OPS File .
188. In February of 1992, the City and Superintendent Martin, through their specially
appointed counsel, called Shadeed Mumin to the stand in the Police Board Hearings and offered
his testimony that on October 30, 1985, he was tortured by means of suffocation with a plastic
bag by Jon Burge and John Paladino, to obtain a statement. Police Board Hearings, 2/92.
189. In its Memorandum In Opposition, the City and Martin, through their specially
appointed counsel, judicially admitted that:
On October 30, 1985, Shadeed Mumin was pulled over and arrested by two police
officers in an unmarked car. He was taken to Area II and placed in a small room
upstairs. Burge entered the room and told Mumin to get up and turn around to the wall.
Mumin was then handcuffed behind him to a ring or hook on the wall such that he could
not sit down. Burge told Mumin that he wanted to know about the robbery, and Mumin
replied that he had no knowledge of what burge was talking about. Burge told Mumin
he would talk before Mumin left left there and tightened Mumin’s handcuffs. The
handcuffs were painful and cut off Mumin’s circulation. Burge then left the room.
Burge returned after a half hour and loosened the handcuffs, asking Mumin if he
was ready to talk. When Mumin said he didn’t know what Burge was talking about,
Burge became angry and pushed him into a wall. He then removed Mumin’s handcuffs,
took him to an office down the hall and handcuffed him. Burge said, “You’re not going
to talk, huh?” and Mumin replied that he didn’t know what Burge was talking about.
Burge said, “do you know that we can bury you in the penitentiary?” Mumin replied
that he still didn’t know what Burge was talking about.
Burge then told Mumin that they really wanted his son, and Mumin repeated that
he didn’t know what Burge was talking about. Burge became angry and pulled out a
fully loaded .44 Magnum. He took out all the bullets except for one, spun it, placed it at 42
Mumin’s head and snapped it three times slowly. Burge told Mumin he was “damned
lucky” that Burge didn’t kill him and that he wanted to know about the “fucking
robbery.”
Burge became angry, jumped up from the desk and snatched a brownish plastic
typewriter cover. He said, “you’ll fucking talk or I’ll kill you,” and placed the cover
over his head. Burge held the cover over his head and pushed it down in his face so he
couldn’t breathe. Mumin, who was handcuffed behind his back, passed out. Burge put it
on his head three times. The third time, Mumin hollered and Burge took the cover off
and laughed. Burge asked him if he was ready to sign a statement and mumin told him
he would do anything. Burge told Mumin that if he told anybody, nobody would believe
him because there were no marks on him and that he had better sign the statement.
Memorandum In Opposition, January 22, 1992 in the Matter of Charges Filed against
Respondents Jon Burge, John Yucaitis and Patrick O’Hara, Cases # 1856-58, pp. 11-12.
190. The OPS never completed its investigation into Mumin’s charges. Mumin CR
File, Tillman-Messenger testimony in People v. Cannon.
191. Stanley Howard testified at his January 1987 Motion to Suppress hearing that he
was arrested on November 1, 1984 by 5 or 6 police officers and transported to Area 2 Police
Headquarters at approximately 7 to 7:30 p.m. and interrogated. People v. Howard, 1/28/87, p.
23.
192. Howard further testified at his motion to suppress hearing that during this
interrogation, in interview room 4 at Area 2, while both of his hands were handcuffed to a ring
in the wall, Area 2 detective Lotitio put a plastic typewriter cover over his head and Sergeant
Byrne and Detective Boffo punched hi, causing him to asphyxiate and black out. Id. at 45-46,
73.
193. Howard further testified at his motion to suppress hearing that when he denied
any knowledge of Oliver Revell’s murder, the officers snapped and went insane punching and
kicking him in his mid-section and back, they also slapped in him the face and Sergeant Byrne 43
repeatedly kicked him in his left shin while he was handcuffed to a ring in interrogation room 4.
Id. at 26-27, 30, 37, 39-41, 46, 49-50, 72-73.
194. Additionally, Howard averred in an affidavit that on November 1, and 2, 1984, he
was interrogated by Detective McWeeny. Howard Affidavit, ¶¶ 19, 21.
195. Howard further averred in his affidavit that after this interrogation, at 2 a.m. on
November 3, 1984, Byrne, Boffo and Lotito further interrogated him, and that when he denied
he was responsible for Oliver Ridgell’s murder, these officers began to slap him, punch him in
the mid-section and kicked him repeatedly in the shin; Lotitio then placed a plastic [shopping]
bag over his head, held it tight around his neck, causing him to black out, and he was awakened
by one of the officers slapping him in the face. Id. at ¶¶ 27-28.
196. Howard further averred in an affidavit that when one of the officers asked if he
was ready to confess, he said no, and Lotito slapped him again, Byrne said “Lay off the head,”
he was then punched in the stomach and chest by all three officers; they then started to put the
typewriter cover over his head again, and he agreed to confess. Id. at ¶¶ 31-32.
197. Howard further averred in his affidavit that within days of being beaten and
tortured, he told his mother and stepfather what happened and reported the beatings and torture
to the Police Department and to the F.B.I. Id. at ¶ 39.
198. Theodore Hawkins gave a signed statement to OPS Investigator Leutie Lawrence,
in C.R.# 142017, in which he stated that he was in police custody at 111th police station on
November 3, 1984 at approximately 2:30 a.m., he observed Howard being questioned through a
two way mirror, that Howard appeared to be flinching, dodging and injured about the face, and
that one of the three interrogators was holding a plastic bag. CR 142017, OPS Statement of 44
Theodore Hawkins, 9/27/93.
199. In a sworn affidavit dated May 10, 1994, Byron Hopkins averred that in early
November, 1984, he was taken into a room where Stanley Howard was being held and that
Howard looked like he had been punched and slapped in the face and he could see his chest was
red and discolored as if he had been punched or kicked in the chest. Affidavit of Byron
Hopkins ¶ 4.
200. In a sworn affidavit dated May 24, 1994 Dr. John M. Raba, who was the medical
director of Cermak Health Services in November of 1984, averred that Howard’s Cermak
medical records reflected that Howard complained of rib pain and abrasions to the lower portion
of his leg, and that the physician observed multiple abrasions on Howard’s left shin. Affidavit
of Dr John Raba, ¶¶ 2-4.
201. In a sworn affidavit, Dr. Antonio Martinez, a psychologist with expertise in
treating victims of torture, averred that he performed a psychological evaluation of Howard to
determine whether he had been a victim of torture, that he interviewed him on four different
occasions, and that he concluded to a reasonable degree of scientific and professional certainty
that Howard was tortured by police, and this torture included blows to the mid-section, use of a
plastic bag to achieve suffocation, and repeated kicks to his shin. Affidavit of Dr. Antonio
Martinez, ¶¶ 4, 5, 10, 19.
202. In his March 1, 2000 deposition in People v. Patterson, Sergeant Byrne testified
that he participated in the interrogation of Stanley Howard. Byrne Dep. p. 155.
204. On January 11, 1994, OPS investigator Leutie Lawence entered the following
sustained findings: 45
a. Sergeant Byrne violated Rule 8, maltreatment of any person, by repeatedly
striking Howard about the body with his fists inside interview room # 4 at
Area on November 3, 1984;
b) Sergeant Byrne violated Rule 8, maltreatment of any person, by repeatedly
kicking Howard’s left leg inside interview room 4 at Area 2 on November 3,
1984;
c) Detective Boffo violated Rule 8, maltreatment of any person, by repeatedly
kicking Howard about the body inside interview room # 4 at Area on November
3, 1984;
d) Detective Boffo violated Rule 8, maltreatment of any person, by repeatedly
striking Howard about the body inside interview room # 4 at Area on November
3, 1984;
e) Detective Lotito, violated Rule 8, maltreatment of any person, by repeatedly
striking Howard about the body with his fists inside interview room # 4 at Area
on November 3, 1984;
f) Detective Lotito, violated Rule 8, maltreatment of any person, by jerking
Howard’s body in the air causing the handcuffs to cut into Howard’s wrists
inside interview room # 4 at Area on November 3, 1984.
Summary Report, CR 142017.
205. The reopened Howard OPS file and the sustained findings were forwarded to OPS
Director Gayle Shines for her review sometime in 1994. Lawrence, Shines and Benefico
depositions, Santiago v. Marquez.
206. Director Shines kept the Howard file and findings in her office from receipt in 1994
until her leaving in 1998 and took no action on these findings. Id.
208. No Chicago police or City of Chicago official or employee, including, but not
limited to, Defendants Shines, Martin, Hillard, and Needham produced the reopened Howard
file and the sustained findings contained therein to plaintiff Patterson, Leroy Orange, Madison
Hobley, Stanley Howard or Darrell Cannon or any of their lawyers in their criminal cases from
1994 to 1999. Id.
209. No Chicago police or City of Chicago Official or employee, including, but not
limited to, Defendants Shines, Martin, Hillard, and Needham produced the reopened Howard 46
file and sustained findings contained therein to any Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney or
to other criminal defendant or his lawyers from 1994 to 1999. Id.
210. This CR file and the findings, was further withheld, despite repeated discovery
demands, from several civil litigants alleging torture and abuse. See, e.g., Santiago v. Marquez,
Wiggins v. City of Chicago.
211. Donald White testified at his deposition on July 14, 1989, that he was taken into
police custody in February of 1982, brought to Police Headquarters at 11th and State by Area 2
detectives, and placed in a room by detectives Hill, McKenna, and O’Hara. White Deposition
in Wilson v. City, 86 C 2360, 7/14/89, pp. 8-9, 17.
212. White further testified that the detectives asked him questions about who killed
police officers Fahey and O’Brien, then Hill got angry and said “I’m tired of this fucking shit,”
placed a black garbage bag over his head, and then beat him in the head and his chest. Id. at 18,
22, 41.
213. White testified that Hill put the bag over his head two additional times, and that
while he was bagged, he was beaten over his head, preventing him from breathing. After the
bagging, he said he would tell them anything they wanted to know. Id. at 19-20.
214. White testified that every time the bag was placed over his head, he was hit, and
O’Hara, McKenna, Hill and two others were in the room and stood in a circle around him. Id.
at 22-23.
215. White further testified that every time he got a detail wrong during the questioning,
Detective Hill threatened to hit him and Hill then started to play with his gun and said that he
should make him run, shoot him and say that he tried to escape. Id. at 19-21. 47
216. White testified that after they took a statement from him and he took a lie detector
test, Hill threatened to shoot him or push him out of a window. Id. at 26, 107.
217. After reviewing 39 photographs at his deposition on July 14, 1989, White
identified a picture of Jon Burge as one of the officers who was in the room during the bagging
and beating. He also identified Detective Hill’s photograph and stated that he was the officer
who put the bag over his head. Id. at 32-36, 38-40, 47, 56.
218. White further testified that at one time while he had the bag over his head, one of
the officers put a gun to his mouth, and at another point, he was hit with fists and a book, or a
stack of something. Id. at 42, 62.
219. In their Memorandum In Opposition, specially appointed City of Chicago
lawyers, on behalf of Superintendent Martin and the City of Chicago, judicially admitted:
On the evening of February 12, 1982, two days before Andrew Wilson’s arrest, Donald
White was picked up by police officers and taken to 11th and State. He was taken to a
room on the 5th floor by Hill, McKenna, Katalinic and respondent O’Hara, and they
began asking him who killed the police officers. They continued to ask him and White
repeatedly told them that he did not shoot the officers. Hill got mad and said “I am tired
of this fucking shit.” He took a black garbage bag and put it over White’s head and then
someone began beating him on his head. Although he could not see them with the bag
over his head, there had to have been at least four people hitting him. O’Hara was in
the room, as was Burge at various times. When White still stated that he did not shoot
the officers and did not know anything, they put the bag back over his head two more
times and beat him again. White almost lost consiousness. At one point, someone
stuck a gun in his mouth. White then said he would tell them anything they wanted to
know. Hill then asked him questions, and, when White didn’t have it right, Hill
pretended he was going to hit White.
White testified to these facts in a deposition taken in connection with Andrew
Wilson’s civil trial. White had not told anyone for five years that he had been abused
because he feared for his life at the hands of the police officers. When he finally agreed
to testify about the abuse he suffered, he did so only on the condition that
Wilson’s lawyers would move him out of Illinois. In addition, because he was
afraid and did not know who he could trust, he did not file an OPS complaint. His
mother, however, did file an OPS complaint in connection with his torture at the hands
of the police officers. OPS reached a finding of “not sustained.” 48
Memorandum In Opposition filed on January 22, 1992 in the Matter of Charges Filed against
Respondents Jon Burge, et. al. , Cases # 1856-58, pp. 10-11.
221. At his March 30, 1988 motion to suppress hearing, Aaron Patterson testified that
he was arrested on April 30, 1986, taken to Area 2, placed in an interview room, handcuffed to
the wall and questioned by Area 2 detectives about the Sanchez homicides, and he denied any
involvement. People v. Patterson, 3/30/88, pp. 391-93.
222. Patterson testified that Detective Pienta told Petitioner that he was "tired of this
bullshit," left the room, and then returned with a gray plastic typewriter cover. Patterson further
testified that when he continued to deny his involvement in the crime, he was handcuffed
behind his back, the lights were turned out, he was repeatedly hit in the chest, the plastic cover
was pushed over his face and ears, he was punched in the chest, and the officers held the bag
over his head for at least a minute, suffocating him. Id., pp. 396-404.
223. Patterson further testified that Pienta threatened to do something worse to him if
he did not cooperate, that he repeatedly asked for an attorney and persisted in refusing to
cooperate, so the detectives again turned off the lights and put the plastic cover over his head.
Patterson further testified that the same seven Detectives who were present for the first round of
torture, including Pienta, William Marley, and William Pederson, were present again Id.,, pp.
405-7.
224. Patterson testified that on this second occasion, the "bagging" went on for at least
two minutes, he was again punched on the body when the bag was over his head, and that
suffocation was even more unbearable than the first time, so he stated to the detectives that he
would say "anything you say." Id, pp. 406-7. 49
225. Aaron Patterson further testified that the detectives then left the room and were
gone for an hour, and that during this time Petitioner scratched into a bench in the interview
room that he was “suffocated with plastic” and that his statement to the police was false. Id.,
pp. 411-12.
226. Patterson further testified that a "red haired" officer, returned with an Assistant
State's Attorney who told him that the red haired officer said that Patterson wanted to make a
statement. Patterson further testified that he asked the ASA to ask the red haired officer to
leave, and he did. Id., pp. 413-15.
227. Patterson further testified that when alone with the ASA, he told him he had
nothing to say, and wanted a lawyer, the ASA then walked to the door of the room, opened it,
and the red haired officer was standing on the other side, and the ASA told the officer that
Petitioner did not want to give a statement. Id., pp. 415-16.
228. Patterson testified that the red haired officer returned to the room, said "you're
fucking up," took his revolver out, put it on the table top, and said "we told you if you don't do
what we tell you to, you're going to get something worse than before -- it will have been a snap
compared to what you will get." Patterson further testified that the red haired officer then asked
Petitioner if he was going to cooperate, said that if Petitioner revealed the torture, "its your
word against ours and who are they going to believe, you or us," and stated that they could do
anything they wanted to do to him. Id., pp. 417-19.
229. Patterson further testified that a second ASA, Peter Troy, came in sometime the
next day with Detective Madigan, he first agreed to make a statement then refused to do so or to
sign a written statement which Troy had written out. Id., pp. 422-34. 50
230. Aaron Patterson testified that he continued to refuse to sign the statement, ASA
Troy physically attacked him, and then Detective Daniel McWeeney entered the room,
professed not to be involved in the prior brutality, and urged him to cooperate because the other
detectives "could do something serious to him if he didn't." Id., pp. 422-435.
231. In an affidavit, Aaron Patterson averred that the red haired officer was Jon Burge,
and that he had so identified him to his criminal defense lawyer in 1989. Affidavit of Aaron
Patterson, ¶ 10; Affidavit of Brian Dosch, ¶ 15.
232. In his affidavit and in his July 19, 1999 testimony at the motion to suppress
hearing in People v. Cannon, Dr. Antonio Martinez averred that on August 12, August 23,
September 1, and September 7, 1994, that he personally interviewed Plaintiff Patterson for the
purpose of psychologically evaluating him. Affidavit of Dr. Antonio Martinez, ¶¶ 4-5, People
v. Cannon, 7/19/99, pp. 10-11, 32, 53.
233. In his affidavit and in his Cannon testimony, Dr. Martinez averred that he had
treated 200 victims of torture and supervised 800 other such cases over the previous eight years,
Id. ¶¶ 3-4; People v. Cannon, 7/19/99, pp. 10-11, 32, 53.
234. In his affidavit and in his Cannon testimony, Dr. Martinez averred that during
his evaluation of Patterson, he determined whether "psychological markers identifying post
Traumatic Stress Disorder resulting from torture were present, and whether [Petitioner's]
present psychological condition showed evidence of a past incident of torture," and determined
that in his expert opinion, Patterson "was tortured at Area 2 during his interrogation" because he
exhibited "six categories of psychological markers which qualify under Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder as it is described by the American Psychiatric Association's DSM IV (1994)." (Id., ¶¶ 51
¶¶ 3-4, 8,10; People v. Cannon, 7/19/99, pp. 10-11, 32, 53, 58-59.
235. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
Aaron Patterson’s allegations.
236. Madison Hobley testified at his motion to suppress hearing on August 29, 1989
that he was arrested on January 6, 1987, and he was taken by Detectives Lotito and Dwyer to
Area 2 at 111th Street. People v. Hobley, 8/29/89, pp. 3-5.
237. Hobley further testified that he was taken from Area 2 to The Bomb and Arson
Unit, which was under the Command of Jon Burge, at Police Headquarters at 11th and State,
where he was taken by Dwyer and Lotito into a utility room containing a typewriter and
cabinets. Id.
238. Hobley further testified that Dwyer cuffed his hands behind his back excessively
tightly and then hit him in the stomach with a closed fist until Hobley fell from the chair onto
the ground, at which point an officer kicked him in the groin. Id. at 18-22.
239. Hobley further testified that when he still refused to confess, Lotito said, “I got
something for him,” and got a plastic typewriter cover off the typewriter and put it over his head
and that Lotito held the cover over his head while Dwyer kept hitting Hobley in the stomach,
until he blacked out. Id. at 22-23.
240. Hobley’s Cook County Jail bruise sheet indicates that Hobley informed the
medical intake person at Cermak Health Services that he had been beaten by officers. The
bruise sheet reflects injuries on his chest and both wrists, and contains an additional handwritten
page attached and signed by “Mr. E Hamilton” which states that, “I got all the mark [sic] on his
body. C/O of blunt trauma to the chest and wrist.” Cermak Health Services History and 52
Physical Exam of Madison Hobley with attached sheet dated 1/7/87.
241. Lt. Phillip Cline, who is now the Superintendent of Police was the Lieutenant in
charge of the Area 2 Violent Crimes Unit on January 6, 1987. Deposition of Cline in People v.
Hobley.
242. Lt. Cline was present at Area 2 during Hobley’s questioning, and discussed the
questioning with Detective Dwyer. Id.
243. The OPS opened an investigation into Hobley’s allegations of torture on the basis
of his sister’s complaint shortly after his January 1987 arrest.
244. Hobley gave a statement to the OPS detailing his allegations of torture shortly after
the CR investigation was opened.
245. Pursuant to its policy and practice, the OPS suspended its investigation without
taking the statements of the accused detectives until after Mr. Hobley’s was convicted of
murder in July of 1991.
246. After Hobley’s trial was concluded in 1991, almost 4 years after the complaint was
first filed, the OPS took the detectives’ statements and entered a finding of not sustained in
Hobley’s OPS complaint.
247. On January 10, 2003, Illinois Governor George Ryan granted four Burge death
row torture victims, Plaintiffs Aaron Patterson, Madison Hobley, Leroy Orange and Stanley
Howard, pardons on the basis of innocence, finding:
The category of horrors was hard to believe. If I hadn't reviewed the cases myself, I
wouldn't believe it. We have evidence from four men, who did not know each other, all
getting beaten and tortured and convicted on the basis of the confessions they allegedly
provided. They are perfect examples of what is so terribly broken about our system.
Statement of Governor George Ryan, Depaul University School of Law, January 10, 2003. 53
248. The arrest report of Lee Holmes reflects that he was arrested at his home on
September 10, 1982, by Sergeant Byrne and Area 2 Detectives Dignan, Lotitio, Boffo, and
Binkowski. Arrest Report of Lee Holmes, CR 126802.
249. On June 22, 1993, Holmes told OPS Investigator Veronica [Tillman] Messenger
that following his arrest, he was taken to Area 2 at 91nd and Cottage Grove, that after he denied
any involvement in a rape the detectives were investigating, he was taken into the basement of
Area 2 by Dignan and Byrne, placed on a chair, cuffed behind his back, and was suffocated with
a plastic bag which was placed over his head. 1993 OPS Statement of Lee Holmes; CR 126802;
People v. Cannon, 11/2/99, p. 40.
250. Holmes further stated to OPS investigator Tillman-Messenger that he was also
struck in the chest, back and genitals with a flashlight and a rubber hose. Id.
251. An Emergency Room Department Report from South Chicago Community Hospital,
dated September 10, 1982, states that Lee Holmes told medical personnel he was beaten up by
two policemen that day. Bruises to his chest and sternal area were noted on the report, as well
as swelling to his left lower arm and elbow. Id.
252. On July 29, 1993, Holmes identified Byrne and Dignan from photographs as the
officers involved in his torture, and Byrne admitted at his March 1, 2001 deposition in People v.
Patterson that he participated in Holmes’s arrest and interrogation. People v. Cannon, 11/2/99,
p. 44; Byrne Dep., pp. 123-24.
253. In a 1993 statement to the OPS, Stanley Wrice said that he saw Holmes, his codefendant, in court after Wrice’s arrest, and Holmes told him he had been bagged by the
officers. CR 202019, 1993 OPS Statement of Stanley Wrice. 54
254. OPS investigator [Tillman] Messenger testified in People v. Cannon that she
recommended that OPS allegations be sustained against Dignan for using excessive force
against Holmes. An OPS memorandum indicates that she also found violations of Rule 8
against Dignan and Area 2 detective Dioguardi for hitting Holmes with a rubber hose and
placing a plastic bag over Holmes’ head. People v. Cannon, 11/2/99, p. 46; Shines Memo,
12/21/94.
255. On January 13, 1993, Marcus Wiggins filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court
against the City of Chicago, Jon Burge, John Byrne Anthony Maslanka, John Paladino, James
O’Brien, and several other Area 3 detectives. Complaint, Wiggins v. Burge, #93-C-199.
256. In his lawsuit, Wiggins alleged that, as a 13 year old juvenile, he was arrested on
September 25, 1991, and while being transported to the station, was hit in the head with a
flashlight by detective O’Brien. Id. ¶¶ 13-15.
257. Wiggins further alleged that he was transported to Area 3, handcuffed to the wall,
questioned about a murder, and repeatedly hit in the chest by Maslanka. Id. ¶¶ 16-17.
258. Wiggins further alleged that Maslanka later threatened him with a beating, then
subsequently electric shocked him on his hands from a box which had cords, a knob and small
paddles. Id. ¶¶ 21-26.
259. After the lawsuit was filed, the OPS opened a CR investigation into Wiggins’
allegations. CR # 193591.
260. At his deposition on June 4,1996, under questioning from City of lawyers, Wiggins
again testified concerning his beating and electric shocking. Wiggins Deposition.
261. On September 25, 1991, Jon Burge was Commander of Area 3 and John Byrne was 55
a sergeant assigned to Area 3. CR 193591.
262. On November 9, 1992 at a motion to suppress in the case of one of Wiggins’ coarrestees, Jesse Clemon, Myron James testified that he was present at Area 3 during the time
that Marcus Wiggins and several of his co-defendants were being questioned by Area 3
detectives. People v. Jesse Clemon, 91-C-25414, 11/9/92, pp 4-9.
263. On November 9, 1992 Myron James further testified that he heard Marcus Wiggins
and Jesse Clemon screaming while he was at Area 3 on September 25, 1991. Id. pp 9-13.
264. Myron James further testified that he saw detectives go into a room at Area 3 where
another of Marcus Wiggins’ co-arrestees, Damoni Clemons was being held, carrying a “little
black thing,” and he heard screaming from that room. Id., pp. 17, 36.
265. Myron James testified that while at Area 3, he saw detectives hitting another coarrestee of Marcus Wiggins nicknamed “Squirt” for 15 or 20 minutes. Id., p. 18.
266. Judge Earl Strayhorn granted Jesse Clemon’s motion to suppress his confession,
finding that:
Given the atmosphere that existed in that District with eleven people under suspicion in
custody in the same location the atmosphere must have been horrendously oppressive and
I am going to suppress the statements
People v. Clemon, 259 Ill. App.3d 5, 8 (1994).
267. The Illinois Appellate court subsequently affirmed Judge Strayhorn’s granting of
the motion to dismiss. People v. Clemon, 259 Ill. App.3d 5, (1994).
268. On June 12, 1990, Plaintiff Andrew Wilson, by counsel, filed in Wilson v. City of
Chicago and served upon the City, through counsel, a verified pleading entitled “Corrected and
Verified Supplemental Filing In Conformance With Direction of District Court.” 56
269. In the June 12, 1990 Corrected and Verified Supplemental Filing, Wilson’s lawyers
verified that true and accurate copies of the following documents were attached:
#1) First Letter from anonymous police source, and envelope in which it was enclosed,
postmarked February 2, 1989;
#2) Advertisement dated February 7, 1989, placed in the Southtown Economist in
Response to letter, and invoice for ad;
#3) Second Letter from anonymous police source, and envelope in which it was enclosed,
postmarked March 6, 1989;
#4) Second Southtown Economist Ad, dated March 14, 1989;
#5) Third Letter from anonymous police source, and envelope in which it was enclosed,
postmarked March 15, 1989;
#6) Phone message, dated March 15, 1989, from anonymous police source;
#7) Fourth Letter from anonymous police source, and envelope in which it was
enclosed, postmarked June 16, 1989.
Corrected and Verified Supplemental Filing In Conformance With Direction of District Court,
June 16, 1990.
270. In the First Letter from the anonymous police source, postmarked February 2,
1989, and attached to the June 12, 1990 Corrected and Verified Supplemental Filing, the source
wrote that several witnesses including the Whites were severely beaten at 1121 S. State Street in
front of the Chief of Detectives, the Superintendent of Police and the states attorneys, that
Mayor Byrne and State’s Attorney Daley were aware of the actions of the detectives, that ASA
Angarola told both of them and condoned their actions, that Mayor Byrne and state’s attorney 57
Daley ordered that numerous complaints filed against the police as a result of this crime not be
investigated, and that this order was carried out by an OPS investigator named Buckley who is
close to Alderman Burke. First Letter from anonymous police source, postmarked February 2,
1989, and attached to the June 12, 1990 Corrected and Verified Supplemental Filing.
271. In the First Letter from the anonymous police source, the source further wrote that
several of the officers named in the suit had been previously accused of using torture machines
in complaints given to OPS and in motions filed in criminal trials, that the device was destroyed
by throwing it off of Lt. Burge’s boat, and that some of the Area 2 detectives were “disgusted”
and “will tell all,” and that the torture was not necessary. Id.
272. In the Second Letter from the anonymous police source, postmarked March 6,
1989, and attached to the June 12, 1990 Corrected and Verified Supplemental Filing, the source
wrote that “I believe that I have learned something that will blow the lid off your case. You
should check for other cases where Lt. Burge was accussed (sic) of using this devices. (sic). I
believe he started many years ago right after he became a detective.” Second Letter, postmarked
March 6,1989, and attached to the June 12, 1990 Corrected and Verified Supplemental Filing.
273. In the Second Letter from the anonymous police source, postmarked March 6,
1989, the source wrote that “I have checked into who was assigned to Area 2 while this was
going on and have some comments on the people assigned. You must remember that they all
knew as did all of the state’s attorneys and many judges and attorneys in private practice. Id.
274. In the Second Letter from anonymous police source, postmarked March 6, 1989,
the source set forth the following lists:
Burge’s Asskickers. 58
Sgt. Jack Byrne (his main man-check his IAD record)
Det. George Basile (his close friend)
Det. Pete Dignan
Det. Frank Glynn
Det. Fred Hill (his invovment (sic) got him a joice (sic) job at 26th St.)
Det. John Paladino
Det. John Yucaitis
Weak Links
Sgt. Frank Lee (went to Area 3 to get away from Burge)
Sgt. Joe Nolan (Burge dumped him)
Sgt. Mike Hoke (He and Burge were constantly arguing and backstabbing each other)
Sgt Tom Ferry (Burge dumped him)
Sgt. Tom Bennett (an attorney and he and Burge split up with some anger)
Det. Ray Binkowski (talks a lot)
Det. Doris Byrd
Det. Robert Dudak
Det. Pat Hickey (Burge hated her because she was a woman)
Det. Bill Kushner (escaped because of Burge and Byrne)
Det. Frank Laverty
Det Walter Young
Det. John McCabe
Id.
275. In the Third Letter from anonymous police source, postmarked March 15, 1989,
and attached to the June 12, 1990 Corrected and Verified Supplemental Filing, the source wrote
that “ I do not want to be involved in this affair. That is why I asked for the reassurance that
these letters would remain private. I do not want to be shunned like Officer Laverty has been
since he cooperated with you.” Third Letter from anonymous police source, postmarked March
15, 1989, and attached to the June 12, 1990 Corrected and Verified Supplemental Filing. 276.
In the Third Letter from the anonymous police source, postmarked March 15, 1989, the source
wrote that “Burge hates black people and is an ego maniac. He’d do any thing to further
himself.” Id. 59
277. In the Third Letter from the anonymous police source,, the source further wrote
that “I advise you to immediately interview a Melvin Jones who is in the County Jail on a
murder charge. He is being retried in Markham. When you speak with him, compare the dates
from 1982 and you will see why it is important. You will also find that the States Attorney
knew that he was complaining and that is why his charges were dropped then. That decision
was made in the top levels of 26th and California.” Id.
278. In the Fourth Letter from the anonymous police source, postmarked June 16, 1989,
and attached to the June 12, 1990 Corrected and Verified Supplemental Filing, the source wrote
that “the common cord is Burge. The machines and plastic bags were his and he is the person
who encouraged their use. You will find that the people with him were either weak and easily
led or sadists. He probably did this because it was easier than spending the time and the effort
talking people into confessing.” Fourth Letter from anonymous police source, postmarked June
16, 1989, and attached to the June 12, 1990 Corrected and Verified Supplemental Filing.
279. In the Fourth Letter from anonymous police source, the source further wrote that
“Burge thinks that this is his most important case and he brags about it. You could check in the
taverns at 103rd and at 92 and Western and you will find that Burge youse (sic) to brag about
everyone he beat.” Id.
280. In a 1994 OPS memorandum, Investigator Tillman-Messenger stated that she
visited the old Area 2 at 9159 S. Cottage Grove, and was given a tour of the basement of Area 2
by Ray Peterson, who stated that he was the building engineer for the building and had been so
since September of 1993, that he worked at Area 2 “off and on” from 1988 to 1993, that he
resided at 9144 S. Cottage Grove from the late sixties until the early seventies, that “when this
building was a police station, it had a pretty nasty reputation,” and that a lot of abuse went on in
this station. 1994 OPS memorandum from OPS Investigator Tillman to Chief Administrator,
OPS, Attachment 24 to CR file #202019.
281. On August 1, 2003, the Chicago Reader, quoting an unnamed Area 2 detective, 60
wrote the following concerning the five day manhunt in February of 1982 which resulted in the
arrest and torture of Andrew Wilson:
The five-day manhunt was directed by Burge, the violent crimes commander in Area
Two. It dominated the news. Mayor Jane Byrne offered a $50,000 reward and met with
Burge during the investigation. A now retired Area Two detective who took part in the
dragnet told the Reader that "there were a million volunteers....Normally you'd have 15 to
20 violent crimes guys on duty. Now you've got not only them, you've got the property
crimes guys, the gang crimes guys. Detectives from Area One were there. The brass was
there because it was such a heater case....My partner and I worked 36 hours straight.
Burge had to send someone to his house to get clean socks and a shirt. He didn't go
home." The detective said, "It was a reign of terror. I don't know what Kristallnacht was
like, but this was probably close." Complaints were widespread, with Jesse Jackson
saying that the community was living "under military occupation."
“Deaf to the Screams,” Chicago Reader, August 1, 2003.
282. In his May 20, 2004 affidavit, Melvin Duncan averred that he was a Chicago
police detective assigned to the Area 2 Homicide/Sex Unit during the 1970's, and that while at
Area 2 he had the occasion to know a Robbery Detective by the name of Jon Burge. Affidavit
of Melvin Duncan, ¶¶ 1, 4.
283. In his affidavit, Melvin Duncan averred that during a visit to the Area 2 Robbery
Office, he saw a dark wooden box which he thought could give electric shocks, like an
electrical device with a crank, wires and prongs which his father had demonstrated on him and
his brother when he was a child, did. Id., ¶¶ 5-7.
284. Duncan further averred that while working at Area 2, he sometimes heard loud
and unusual noises coming from the Area 2 Robbery Unit Office. Id., ¶ 8.
285. In his affidavit, Melvin Duncan further averred that while working at
Area 2 he heard that certain Robbery detectives used an electrical box and cattle prods on
people to get confessions from them. Id., ¶ 9. 61
286. Duncan averred in his affidavit that he worked with detective Peter Dignan while
at Area 2 and formed the opinion that Dignan had racist attitudes. Id., ¶ 10.
287. Duncan further averred that while working as an Area 2 detective, he became
familiar with a practice of detectives of keeping their own “street” or “unit” files which were
not turned over to the assistant state’s attorney or the defense lawyers on the case. Id., ¶ 11.
288. In a sworn court reported statement dated October 12, 2004, Sammy Lacey Jr.
averred that he was a Chicago Police detective who worked in the Area 2 Violent Crimes Unit
from 1981 to 1988. October 12, 2004 Statement of Sammy Lacey Jr., pp. 3-5.
289. In his sworn court reported statement, Lacey averred that he was at Police
Headquarters at 1121 S. State Street in February of 1982 when a suspect was being questioned
for the murder of Fahey and O’Brien on an upper floor of the building, and that Jon Burge and
the Chief of detectives were also present on the upper floors where the questioning was being
conducted. Id., pp. 7-9.
290. Lacey further averred that he went to the Area 2 Violent Crimes office on Sunday,
February 14, 1982, while the Wilson brothers were being held there, and that there were “a lot
of big brass,” including Deputy Superintendents also present. Id. p 11.
291. In his sworn court reported statement, Lacey averred that police personnel who
worked at the 5th District police station asked him questions about “ what was going on
midnights,” and “what are they doing to people up there on mid nights,” indicating to Lacey
that something “was not right on the midnight shift,” and that it “seemed like” there was
physical abuse going on at Area 2 on the midnight shift. Id., pp. 16-17.
292. Lacey averred that the midnight shift at Area 2, which was known to him and 62
other detectives as the “A Team,” had a very high percentage of obtaining written confessions.
Id., p. 15.
293. Lacey further averred that Jon Burge was often present at Area 2 when Lacey left
work at the end of his shift at midnight, and the midnight shift began its shift, and “if there was
any questioning, he was there.” Id., pp. 17-18.
294. Lacey further averred that after Burge left Area 2 and went to Area 3, many of the
midnight shift detectives also transferred to Area 3 and that they heard that the same
“scuttlebutt” began at Area 3, and that by “scuttlebutt” he meant that he heard off the record
from department members that strange things were going on at Area 3 and a lot of confessions
were being obtained. Id., pp. 19-20.
295. In a sworn court reported statement dated November 2, 2004, Walter Young
averred that he became a Chicago police detective in 1970 and was assigned to Area 2 in 1980
or 1981. Court Reported Statement of Walter Young, pp. 2-4.
296. In his sworn court reported statement, Young averred that he saw a box like object
with what appeared to be a crank in the basement area of Area 2. Id. p. 6.
297. Young further averred that after hearing certain stories, and overhearing
conversations, innuendos, and gossip from other Area 2 detectives, he concluded that the box
that he saw might have been the electrical box that was said to have been used on certain people
brought into the Area. Id.
298. Young averred that in the conversations that he overheard at Area 2, there was a
reference to the Vietnamese and Vietnam, that suspects could be made to talk if the same
techniques were basically used that were used in Vietnam, and that the term “Vietnam special” 63
or “Vietnam treatment” was used. Id., pp. 7-8.
299. In his sworn court reported statement, Walter Young averred that based on seeing
the box, and overhearing conversations, he later deducted that the “Vietnam treatment”
probably referred to the use of electric shock.. Id., p, 18.
300. Young further averred that on one occasion, while walking past an interview
room, he heard unusual noises, saw Burge walking out of the room, and a black suspect sitting
on the floor handcuffed to a ring on the wall. Id. p. 10.
301. Walter Young further averred that Burge had a reputation of being forceful in his
investigations. Id. p. 12.
302. Walter Young averred that during the manhunt for the killers of officers Fahey
and O’Brien in February of 1982, he overheard conversations from detectives that force was
being used on suspects at Area 2, and heard noises that sounded like furniture being moved in
one of the interview rooms during the time that the Wilson brothers were in custody. Id., p. 25.
303. Young averred that he overheard Area 2 detectives say that a phone book would
sometimes help people refresh their memories, and that phone books don’t leave marks and
plastic bags help to cushion the phone book. Id. pp. 27-28.
304. Young further averred that he took an “Ostrich” approach to what went on at Area
2 and left the Area, when possible, when he thought “stuff” was going on there. Id., pp. 11, 27.
305. Young averred that he concluded from the way he and his fellow black detectives
were treated by Jon Burge that Burge was a racist. Id., p. 31.
306. In a sworn court reported statement dated November 9, 2004, Doris Byrd averred
that she became a Chicago police detective in 1980, was assigned to Area 2 in 1981, worked in 64
the Violent Crimes Unit on the 5:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. shift until 1984, and retired as a sergeant
on April 15, 2004. She further averred that Jon Burge took over Command of the Unit shortly
after she arrived in 1981. Court Reported Statement of Doris Byrd, pp. 3-6, 17.
307. In her sworn court reported statement, Doris Byrd averred that after Area 2
detective Frank Laverty came forward in the George Jones case and exposed the use of secret
street files, Burge pointed a gun at the back of Laverty’s head after he left a room at Area 2 and
said “bang,” and that she took the actions of Burge against Laverty to be a message as to what
would happen if police officers came forward and broke the code of silence and exposed police
misconduct Id., pp. 6-7..
308. Doris Byrd averred that she sometimes stayed after 1:00 a.m. at Area 2 and from
time to time heard screaming and other unusual noises coming from the interview rooms while
detectives from the midnight shift or “A Team”were interrogating people, and the hollering
included suspects saying “stop hitting me, or “what are you hitting me for?” Id., pp. 8-9, 16.
309. Byrd further averred that she was never questioned by any police investigative
personnel about her knowledge of torture and abuse at Area 2 and that while on the force, she
“would have to have to think twice” about talking to investigators because “they didn’t do much
for Laverty when he spoke out.” - - - “they stuck him in a unit, never to make rank, and
squashed his career.” Id., pp. 17-19.
310. Doris Byrd averred that she was told by suspects who were interrogated at Area 2
that they had been physically abused by telephone books, bags, and the electric shock box, that
“the black box was running rampant through the little Unit up there” and that she heard about it
both from detectives and suspects. Id., pp. 9-11. 65
311. Doris Byrd further averred that the telephone books, bags, and the electric shock
box was somewhat of an open secret at Area 2, that Burge was the head of the Unit and that
suspects linked this kind of abuse to Burge or Byrne and the midnight shift. Id., pp, 11-12.
312. Byrd averred that when she was in the Area 2 office during the five day period in
February 1982 from the date that officers Fahey and O’Brien were killed until the time that the
Wilson brothers were arrested, she heard arrestees screaming and hollering and observed one
black male attached to a radiator with steam coming out. Id., p. 13.
313. Byrd averred that in 1983 she was involved in the questioning of arrestee Gregory
Banks, that she did not use any force during the questioning, and Banks did not give an
inculpatory statement. Id., p. 22.
314. Byrd further averred that the “A Team” then took Banks out of the Area, and
when they returned, Banks gave an inculpatory statement to Dignan and Byrne, and that she
heard that the confession was obtained with torture tactics. Id., pp. 22, 23.
315. Doris Byrd averred that it was part of a pattern that she often saw that the “A
Team” was quite successful in getting statements from suspects and that it was part of the open
secret at Area 2 that the tactics that they used to get these statements were the torture tactics she
had heard about. Id.
316. Doris Byrd averred that from what she saw concerning how he ran his operation,
and how he related to blacks and whites, that Jon Burge was a racist. Id., pp. 26-27.
317. In her sworn court reported statement, Doris Byrd averred that it was an open
secret and known to the detectives that Burge was heading up a manhunt to find the killers of
Officers Fahey and O’Brien where unnecessary force and torture tactics were being used. to 66
find the killers of Officers Fahey and O’Brien. Id., p. 28.
318. Doris Byrd further averred that it was also known to the detectives at Area 2 that
Burge was given a mandate by the Mayor of the City of Chicago to do anything he had to do,
including using torture tactics, to clear the murders of Fahey and O’Brien. Id., pp. 28-29.
319. Byrd averred that it was an open secret and known to the detectives that Burge
was heading up a manhunt where unnecessary force and torture tactics were being used. to find
the killers of Officers Fahey and O’Brien. Id., p. 28.
320. In her sworn court reported statement, Byrd averred that after she was named as a
“weak link” in the anonymous police letters, she received a call from a Chicago Police Captain
who was a friend of Peter Dignan’s named Phelan who said that he had been speaking to
Dignan and that Dignan was worried about her testifying against him. Id. pp. 33-34.
321. Byrd averred that John Byrne was known as Burge’s main man, that he was the
head of the A Team, and was identified as one of the people doing the torture. Id., pp. 33-34.
322. Byrd averred that George Basile was known as a close associate of Burge and also
had a reputation of being in the group who were torturing people. Id., pp. 35-36.
323. Byrd averred that John Paladino was Basile’s partner and had the reputation of
being one of Burge’s men. Id., pp. 36-37.
324. In her sworn court reported statement, Doris Byrd averred that Frank Glynn, Fred
Hill and Peter Dignan were all on the A Team and were in the group who were Burge’s men
who were involved in the same kinds of acts that Burge was. Id., pp. 36-37.
325. In her sworn court reported statement, Doris Byrd averred that John Yucaitis was
on the A Team and had the reputation along with Burge for torture and abuse. Id., p. 37. 67
326. In her sworn court reported statement, Doris Byrd averred that she and one of her
partners at Area 2, Sammy Lacey, both made Sergeant, and if they had come forward while they
were on the force with what they knew and heard about police torture, Burge, and the A team,
they would have been frozen out of the police system, ostracized, would definitely not have
made rank, and would probably have been stuck in some do nothing job. Id., p. 41.
327. In her sworn court reported statement Doris Byrd averred that she also feared that
one of her family members might be mistreated by Area 2 detectives, like George Jones was, if
she came forward . Id., pp. 42-43.
328. In their statements Byrd, Young, and Lacey all averred that Burge treated them
and the other few black detectives in a racist and discriminatory manner when it came to
making assignments of cases and giving performance ratings, that they called this to
Commander Leroy Martin’s attention, but Martin did nothing to stop the practice, but rather
reported it to Burge, who then rebuked them for their complaints. Byrd, Lacey, and Young
statements.
329. In a sworn court reported statement dated October 4, 2004, William Parker Sr.
averred that he was a Chicago police detective assigned to Area 2 Robbery in 1972 or 1973
when he heard a loud human outcry coming from an office there. Statement of William Parker,
pp. 5-6.
330. In his sworn court reported statement, Parker averred that the loud human outcry
which he heard coming from an office there in 1972 or 1973 was a shrill inhuman type cry of
someone obviously hurting or in pain. Parker further averred that other detectives in the Area
heard the cries, but did not respond as he did. Id., pp. 6, 13. 68
331. Parker further averred that in response to the loud human outcry, he forced the
closed door to the room open and entered the room. Id., pp. 5 , 7.
332. Parker further averred that upon entering the door to the room, he saw a black
male with his pants open and down, handcuffed to a old fashioned radiator which constantly
steamed all day, with Jon Burge standing to the black male’s left, right next to him, and two
other white detectives standing to Burge’s left. He further averred that one of the detectives
took something off the desk and put it on the floor, and that he believed that they were trying to
conceal from him whatever they had taken off the desk and put on the floor. Id., pp. 7-9, 12.
333. Parker averred that later after he had learned about the torture techniques and
tactics that they used, and some fellas said that it was something like a black box that they used
to give electric shocks, he was led to believe that that could have been what was taken off the
desk. Id., p. 8.
334. Parker averred that the black male looked panicked, scared and in pain, then later
looked happy that someone was in there who was concerned about him, and that Burge, whom
he described as a big redhead, looked shocked and turned beet red in the face when Parker
entered the room Id., pp. 10-11.
335. Parker further averred that not long after he entered the room, a sergeant showed
up and let him know that it wasn’t any of his business and he had no right to barge in while they
were conducting their investigation. Id., pp, 13-14.
336. Parker averred that he believed that Lt. Walter Murphy was in charge of the Area
2 Robbery Unit at that time and Burge, Hoke, Houtsma, and several other detectives worked
very closely with him and carried out his orders. Id., pp. 14-15. 69
337. Parker further averred that not long after the incident where he saw Burge in the
room next to the male suspect, he was abruptly transferred out of Area 2, and he was led to
believe that it was because of what he had witnessed during that incident. Id., p. 16.
338. In a videotaped sworn statement dated March 11, 2004, Eileen Pryweller, sister of
Area 2 detective Robert Dwyer, stated that she had a conversation with her brother and Jon
Burge at Dwyer’s house in mid-January, 1987. Statement of Eileen Pryweller, 3/11/04, pp. 5-6.
339. In her statement, Pryweller averred that during this conversation, Burge and
Dwyer described how they dealt with “niggers” during interrogations, stating that they “give
them hell,” “beat the shit out of them, throw them against walls, burn them against the radiator,
smother them, poke them with objects, [and] do something to some guys’ testicles.” Id., pp. 9-
10.
340. In her statement, Pryweller further averred that Dywer said, “this skinny little
nigger, boy I got him [by] just torturing him, smothering him,” while Burge laughed. They
made reference to this torture victim in connection with a gas station and getting a gas can. Id.,
pp. 10-11.
341. Pryweller averred that Burge seemed proud of his torture tactics, that he and
Dwyer were “full of hate,” that Burge “described some techniques that he had that no one could
even fathom, ” and that Dwyer said he could “make anyone confess to anything.” Id., pp. 11-13.
342. Pryweller averred that in the summer of 2002, while visiting Marin County,
California for her sister’s funeral, her brother, Robert Dwyer, approached her and in a private
conversation, he brought up Burge and the prior conversation, and communicated what she
perceived to be a threat. Id., pp. 24-32. 70
343. John Byrne in sworn testimony at his March 1, 2000 deposition in People v.
Patterson, and Peter Dignan, in his 1996 sworn deposition in Wiggins v. Burge, both admitted
that they, Burge and other Area 2 officers commonly used the term “nigger.” Byrne’s Dep., pp.
67-68, 136, 181; Dignan Dep., pp. 60-63, 64-65.
344. On November 1, 1999 at a motion to suppress hearing in People v. Cannon, Dr.
Robert Kirschner testified as an expert that he was a forensic pathologist, a member of the
Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago, a forensic consultant to physicians for
human rights, that he had participated in several missions and investigations around the world
investigating police and other governmental torture, that over the past 15 years he has evaluated
approximately 200 torture victims around the world, and that he has often been called on to
evaluate whether there is systematic torture being practiced by the police and other
governmental authorities. Kirschner further testified that he has done much of his work on
behalf of the United Nations, for whom he has written portions of a protocol which defines the
methodologies of torture and how to properly investigate and evaluate cases of alleged torture.
People v. Cannon, 11/1/99, pp. 5-6, 10-45, 57-59, 69, 80-81, 90-93, 96.
345. Dr. Kirschner further testified in Cannon that in his experience and opinion,
electric shocking, plastic bagging or dry submarino, Russian roulette and other forms of mock
executions, and hanging by handcuffs are common forms of police and governmental torture
used across the world. Id. at 5-6, 10-45, 57-59, 69, 80-81, 90-93, 96.
346. Dr. Kirschner further testified that in his opinion there was a pattern and practice
of torture at Area 2 and later at Area 3 Headquarters under the command of Jon Burge, and that
this opinion was based, inter alia, on his evaluations of several alleged Area 2 and 3 torture 71
victims, including Andrew Wilson, Darrell Cannon, Leroy Orange and Marcus Wiggins,
discussions with Chicago detectives who acknowledged that there was police torture at Area 2,
the fact that frequent allegations of electric shock, bagging, Russian Roulette only arose from
Area 2 and later from Area 3 Headquarters while Jon Burge was the commander, and not
against other officers in other station houses, and that the patterns and methodologies at Area 2
and 3 under Burge and Byrne closely mirrored those which he observed, investigated, and
evaluated in places such as Turkey and Israel. Id. at 5-6, 10-45, 57-59, 69, 80-81, 90-93, 96.
347. In an affidavit executed in August of 2004, Richard Brzeczek averred that he was
the Chicago Police Superintendent from January 11, 1980 until April 29,1983. Affidavit of
Richard Brzeczek, ¶1.
348. Brzeczek further averred that he made the following true and accurate statements
to Chicago Tribune reporter Steve Mills which appeared in an April 29 2002 Chicago Tribune
article:
Twenty years later, Brzeczek, now a defense attorney, said that there is ‘no doubt in my
mind’ that Burge and his detectives tortured some suspects. The whole situation at Area 2
[was] a disgrace and an embarrassment. It’s time something is done about it,” Brzeczek
said, referring to the former Burnside station on the southside where most of the torture
allegedly occurred.
Id., ¶¶ 4-5.
349. Brzeczek further averred that “subsequent to [his] resignation from the Chicago
Police Department, [he] monitored litigation initiated by persons making claims and/or
allegations regarding torture sustained at the hands of police officers at Detective Division Area
2. [He] further monitored the prosecution of certain police officers previously assigned to Area 2
based on allegations of torture and other improper treatment of prisoners under their control 72
before the Chicago police Board. [He] also monitored media coverage of allegations and legal
actions arising out of allegations of torture and other improper treatment brought by persons
against police officers assigned to Detective Division Area 2.” Id., ¶ 10.
350. Brzeczek further averred that “based on the fact that allegations continued to arise
alleging torture and other improper treatment occurring at a time after [he] left the Chicago
Police Department on April 29, 1983, and based upon the fact that Richard M. Daley, State’s
Attorney of Cook County, did not conduct (or at least affiant is not aware of any such action),
any investigation into the allegations brought to his attention by the affiant in the letter as
aforesaid, affiant was and is convinced that some persons held in custody at Area 2 had to be
tortured.” Id., ¶11.
351. In his affidavit, Brzeczek further averred that “based on the sheer number of the
allegations, the findings of the courts in certain litigation brought against officers assigned to the
Detective Division Area 2, and the fact that police officers were discharged and/or suspended for
their roles in allegations made against them for the improper treatment of prisoners while
assigned to Detective Division Area 2, the affiant was and is convinced that some persons were
tortured while in custody at Detective Division Area 2.” Id., ¶12.
352. Thirty former Area 2 and Area 3 detectives and supervisors, while under oath, and
represented by lawyers paid for by the City of Chicago, invoked the Fifth Amendment in
response to all questions concerning the arrest, interrogation, the alleged torture and abuse of
scores of suspects, including, but not limited to, those named in this Summary, and the coercion
and fabrication of evidence while they were assigned to Area 2 and Area 3. These officers
include the following defendants and witnesses in the Hobley, Patterson, Orange and Howard
cases:
a. former Commander Jon Burge on 9/1/04
b. former Sergeant John Byrne on 8/20/04
c. former detective James Pienta on 10/7/04
d. Sergeant Raymond Madigan on 9/15/04
e. former detective John Paladino on 7/29/04 73
f. former detective William Pedersen on 10/5/04
g. former detective James Lotito on 8/16/04
h. Commander William Garrity on 8/5/04
i. former detective Daniel McWeeny on 9/20/04
j. former Lieutenant Dennis McGuire on 11/17/04
k. former detective Raymond McNally on 11/8/04
l. former detective Robert Flood on 10/8/04
m. former detective William Marley on 9/23/04
n. former detective David Dioguardi on10/5/04
o. former Lieutenant. Peter Dignan on 8/27/04
p. detective Robert Dwyer on 7/27/04
q. former detective Joseph Danzl on 10/5/04
r. former detective Leonard Bajenski on 1/20/05
s. detective Michael Bosco on 9/3/04
353. Thirty former Area 2 and Area 3 detectives and supervisors, while under oath, and
represented by lawyers paid for by the City of Chicago, invoked the Fifth Amendment in
response to all questions concerning whether there were policies and practices of police torture,
fabrication of evidence, and police code of silence while they were assigned to Area 2. These
officers include the following defendants and witnesses in the Hobley, Patterson, Orange and
Howard cases:
a. former Commander Jon Burge on 9/1/04
b. former Sergeant John Byrne on 8/20/04
c. former detective James Pienta on 10/7/04
d. Sergeant Raymond Madigan on 9/15/04
e. former detective John Paladino on 7/29/04
f. former detective William Pedersen on 10/5/04
g. former detective James Lotito on 8/16/04
h. Commander William Garrity on 8/5/04
i. former detective Daniel McWeeny on 9/20/04
j. former Lieutenant Dennis McGuire on 11/17/04
k. former detective Raymond McNally on 11/8/04
l. former detective Robert Flood on 10/8/04
m. former detective William Marley on 9/23/04
n. former detective David Dioguardi on10/5/04
o. former Lieutenant. Peter Dignan on 8/27/04
p. detective Robert Dwyer on 7/27/04
q. former detective Joseph Danzl on 10/5/04 74
r. former detective Leonard Bajenski on 1/20/05
s. detective Michael Bosco on 9/3/04
355. Thirty former Area 2 and Area 3 detectives and supervisors, while under oath, and
represented by lawyers paid for by the City of Chicago, invoked the Fifth Amendment in
response to all questions concerning whether they participated in, witnessed, or were aware of
the alleged torture and abuse of Plaintiffs Aaron Patterson, Leroy Orange, Madison Hobley and
Stanley Howard. These officers include the following defendants and witnesses in the Hobley,
Patterson, Orange and Howard cases:
a. former Commander Jon Burge on 9/1/04
b. former Sergeant John Byrne on 8/20/04
c. former detective James Pienta on 10/7/04
d. Sergeant Raymond Madigan on 9/15/04
e. former detective John Paladino on 7/29/04
f. former detective William Pedersen on 10/5/04
g. former detective James Lotito on 8/16/04
h. Commander William Garrity on 8/5/04
i. former detective Daniel McWeeny on 9/20/04
j. former Lieutenant Dennis McGuire on 11/17/04
k. former detective Raymond McNally on 11/8/04
l. former detective Robert Flood on 10/8/04
m. former detective William Marley on 9/23/04
n. former detective David Dioguardi on10/5/04
o. former Lieutenant. Peter Dignan on 8/27/04
p. detective Robert Dwyer on 7/27/04
q. former detective Joseph Danzl on 10/5/04
r. former detective Leonard Bajenski on 1/20/05
s. detective Michael Bosco on 9/3/04
356. On October 11, 1989, Chief Office of Professional Standards Administrator David
Fogel testified before the Chicago City Council and gave the following answers to the following
questions by Alderman Rush:
Q: All right. Mr. Fogel, what have you done to discourage, well, first of all do you
acknowledge the fact that there is a code of silence that exists in the Chicago 75
Police Department?
A: In all professions.
Q: Okay. And its, do you acknowledge - - -
A: Including, including the Chicago Police Department.
City Council Hearing, Committee on Police, Fire an Municipal Institutions, Public
Hearing on Police Brutality, Day 5, October 11, 1989, p. 285.
357. On October 11, 1989, Police Superintendent Leroy Martin testified before the
Chicago City Council and gave the following answers to the following question by Alderman
Caldwell:
Q: One final question, Superintendent, and this was asked of Dr. Fogel on
numerous occasions. It has to do with the suggested code of silence among
police officers. As Superintendent of Chicago’s Police Department, do you
agree or - - -
A: Yes.
Q: Do you agree that there is in fact in force and functioning a code of silence
among police officers?
A: To some extent, yes, sir.
Id., pp. 368-69.
358. On or about October 19, 1987, OPS Director Fogel sent a document entitled
“Proposed Revamping of Office of Professional Standards,” to the Mayor of the City of Chicago
in which he wrote:
By accepting all cases, even erring on the liberal side, to be accommodative to the
public, OPS gives the appearance of moving forward on all complaints. The opposite
occurs. The appearance of doing a thorough investigation with full due process
and endless unnecessary reviews for all, actually operates to immunize police
from internal discipline, increases their overtime, leads to an enormous “paper storm”
and has institutionalized lying.
“Proposed Revamping of Office of Professional Standards,” October 19, 1987, p. 2.
359. [Deleted]
360. In Jones v. City of Chicago, 856 F. 2d 985, (7th Cir. 1987) the Seventh Circuit 76
Court of Appeals affirmed a jury verdict against Area 2 Violent Crimes detectives, supervisors
and commanding officers, including detectives James Houtsma, Dennis McGuire, John McCabe,
and Raymond McNally, Sgt. Alvin Palmer, Lt. Griffith, and Commander Milton Deas, for
conspiracy to “railroad” 18 year old George Jones for a 1981 murder, stating:
We cannot say that the jury acted unreasonably in finding that all of the
individual defendants were voluntary participants in a common venture to
railroad George Jones.
Jones v. City of Chicago, 856 F. 2d at 992.
361. In Jones v. City of Chicago, the Seventh Circuit affirmed a jury verdict against the
City of Chicago for maintaining a “street files”custom or policy which led to the railroading of
18 year old George Jones for a 1981 murder, stating:
The custom in question is the maintenance of the "street files," police
files withheld from the state's attorney and therefore unavailable as a
source of exculpatory information that might induce him not to prosecute
or, failing that, would at least be available to defense counsel under
Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 10 L. Ed. 2d 215, 83 S. Ct. 1194 (1963). As
we noted recently, information undermining the credibility of a government
witness is within the scope of Brady's rule. See United States v.
Herrera-Medina, 853 F.2d 564, slip op. at 5 (7th Cir. 1988).
Although the lawfulness of the street-files practice has never been
adjudicated, the City, which has abandoned the practice, does not challenge
the jury's implicit finding that it denied criminal defendants due process
of law. Brady v. Maryland does not require the police to keep written
records of all their investigatory activities; but attempts to circumvent
the rule of that case by retaining records in clandestine files
deliberately concealed from prosecutors and defense counsel cannot be
tolerated. The City sensibly does not attempt to defend such behavior in
this court.
There is little doubt that the clandestine character of the street files
played a role in Jones's misfortunes. Cf. Harris v. City of Pagedale, 821
F.2d 499, 507 (8th Cir. 1987). If the state's attorney had had [*996]
access to them, he would have discovered memos by Kelly and especially by
Laverty that would have given any prosecutor pause. Alternatively, defense 77
counsel would have obtained them prior to trial and the trial would have
ended even sooner than it did. The only question is whether this custom was
a custom of the City of Chicago. As the custom was department-wide
and of long standing, the jury was entitled to conclude that it had been
consciously approved at the highest policy-making level for decisions
involving the police department -- the standard suggested by the recent
plurality opinion in City of St. Louis v. Praprotnik, 485 U.S. 112, 108 S.
Ct. 915, 99 L. Ed. 2d 107 (1988). See also Stokes v. Bullins, 844 F.2d 269,
273 (5th Cir. 1988).
Jones, 856 F. 2d at 995.
362. Jerry Mahaffey testified at his motion to suppress hearing in February of 1984 that
he was arrested in his apartment at 11216 S. Indiana on September 2, 1983, and he was hit in the
nose, thrown against the wall, had a gun pointed at his head, kicked in the groin and right ribs
and had a garbage bag put over his head which made it difficult for him to breathe when he was
arrested. People v. Jerry, Reginald Mahaffey, 2/16/84, pp. 39-40, 734-40.
363. Jerry Mahaffey further testified that he was taken to Area 2, handcuffed in a little
room, and interrogated by Sergeant Byrne and drtective Grunhard. After he denied any
knowledge as to a rifle, the officers tightened his cuffs and told him “You are going to tell us
what we want to know because you are going to die anyway.” Id. at 741-44.
364. Jerry Mahaffey further testified that he appeared in Branch 66 on September 6,
1983, and that an order was signed at that time requesting an examination by a physician at
Cermak Hospital and that the Judge in Branch 66 also stated on the record that Jerry Mahaffey
had discoloration on the right side of his chest 4-5 inches below his right nipple which was 3
inches in length and one inch in width. Id. at 750-51.
365. Sergeant Byrne admitted at his March 1, 2001 deposition in People v. Patterson
that he and Area 2 Detective Yucaitis participated in Jerry Mahaffey’s arrest and that he 78
participated in his interrogation. Byrne’s Dep., pp. 155-56.
366. Detective Grunhard testified at Jerry Mahaffey’s motion to suppress hearing that
Sergeant Byrne and Detectives Lotito and Boffo were present at 11216 South Indiana when they
spoke with Jerry Mahaffey. People v. Jerry, Reginald Mahaffey, 2/16/84, pp. 713-14.
367. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
Jerry Mahaffey’s allegations.
368. Reginald Mahaffey testified at his motion to suppress hearing on February 9, 1984
that he was arrested on September 2, 1983, at 4:15 a.m. in his apartment and kicked in the groin
area, rib area and head by an officer in plainclothes. People v. Reginald Mahaffey, 2/9/84, pp.
232, 234).
369. Reginald Mahaffey testified that he was taken to Area 2, and during his
interrogation, he was suffocated with a plastic bag over his head while his head was being
bumped against the wall. He also testified that he was beaten with a flashlight in his midsection, back, stomach, shoulder blades, shoulder, neck and he was kicked in the leg. (Id. at 236-
38, 239, 266-67, 289-90).
370. Sergeant Byrne admitted at his deposition in People v. Patterson that he
participated in Reginald Mahaffey’s arrest and interrogation. Byrne Dep. at 74,155-56.
371. Detectives Yucaitis and Grunhard testified at Reginald Mahaffey’s motion to
suppress hearing that they were present when Reginald Mahaffey was arrested. Byrne’s Dep., p.
74; People v. Jerry, Reginald Mahaffey, 2/13/84, pp. 77-121, 123, 172.
372. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
Reginald Mahaffey’s allegations. 79
373. Michael Johnson testified at his June 14, 1989 deposition in Wilson v. City of
Chicago that Jon Burge picked him up and took him to Area 2 at 91st and Cottage Grove in June
of 1982. Johnson Dep., 6/14/89, pp. 7-8.
374. He further testified that Burge, in the presence of two other officers, questioned him
about a homicide, beat him, shocked him with an electrical device, pointed a gun in his face and
at his head, asked him if he was ready to talk, threw a chair at him, hit him in the face, and hit
him on the head with a gun. Id. at 8, 11-13.
375. At his deposition, Johnson described the electrical device as a little box with a wire,
and the wire had a little prong like a soldering iron or tweezers attached to it. Id. at 14-15.
376. Johnson further testified that Burge placed the prong on his genital area twice for a
second each time and it felt like he received an electric current. Id. at 15.
377. Willie Porch testified on June 27, 1989 at the trial of Wilson v. City of Chicago that
he was arrested on September 28, 1979, between 9 and 9:30 p.m., and he was eventually taken to
Area 2 where he and Raymond Golden were placed in an interrogation room on the second floor
and they were interrogated by Sergeant X, and detective Gorman about a shooting. Wilson v.
City of Chicago, 6/27/89, pp. 1874-76).
378. Porch further testified that Sergeant X took out his revolver, unloaded it, put one
bullet back in the gun, spun the barrel and pointed it at him and Golden. He further testified that
X also stepped on his groin. Id. at 1877-79.
379. Porch further testified that he was then taken to a second interview room where
Sgt. X hit him with his revolver, which was long and silver chromed with a brown handle, on
the top and side of his head, and X and Gorman attempted to hang him from a hook while his
hands were cuffed behind his back. Id. at 1882-85. 80
380. Porch testified that he was then transported back to an interview room where
Raymond Golden was present and he saw Sgt. X hit Golden in the left side of his head with a
shotgun. Id.
381. Porch further testified that he saw Tony Thompson, whose face and head were
swollen and eye was closed, and the officers asked if he wanted to look like “Tony puff face.”
Id. at 1887-89.
382. Porch further testified that when he refused to make a statement to the ASA, Sgt. X
hit him with a revolver 3-4 times in the head and Gorman hit him in the head with his hand. Id. at
1890-92.
383. Judge Duff, the Judge in Wilson v. City of Chicago, ruled that Burge’s name could
not be used by Porch before the jury; hence Porch referred to Burge as Sergeant X in his Wilson
testimony. Wilson v. City of Chicago, 6/27/89, pp. 1874-92.
384. Timothy Thompson testified at his motion to suppress hearing on May 24, 1984 that
he was arrested by Jon Burge and other officers on September 29, 1979, he was choked and hit
in the eye by one of the arresting officers at the time he was arrested, that he was taken in a
squad car by Burge and another Area 2 detective to the police station at 90th and Cottage Grove,
and he was questioned by Burge and this detective at the police station People v. Porch,
Thompson, 5/24/84, pp. 43-45, 52, 59.
385. Thompson further testified that at the station the arresting officers threatened that
he would look like his brother, whom they referred to as “Tony puff face,” that he had seen Tony
earlier at the police station, and when he saw him, both of Tony’s eyes were closed, and his face
was puffed up and black and blue. Id. at 46-47.
386. Thompson testified that Sergeant Burge hit him in the jaw and he made a statement 81
to stop the constant hitting. Id. at 46-47, 50.
387. Thompson identified Jon Burge in his motion to suppress testimony, and described
him as the “larger sergeant with red hair.” Id. at 43, 49, 64.
388. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
Porch or Thompson’s allegations.
389. Sylvester Green testified at his motion to suppress hearing on April 23, 1983, that
he was arrested on December 28, 1981, and brought to Area 2 located at 91st and Cottage Grove.
People v. Green, 4/23/83, p. 47.
390. Green further testified that after he was brought to Area 2 on December 22, 1981,
three white plain clothes detectives came into the room, pulled his hair pulled back, punched him
in the eye, choked him, mashed down his left foot, called him a “nigger” and a “nigger bastard,”
handcuffed him to the wall and left the room. Id. at 49, 51-53.
391. At his trial, Green identified Detective Basile as the officer who pulled his hair. ,
Trial transcript, People v. Green, p. 1170.
392. At his trial, Green testified that another officer, with sandy brown hair, approached
him and said “These guys will tell you I’m the nicest officer in this police station. Just tell the
truth and we’ll go easy on you.” Id. at 1174.
393. Green further testified at his trial that Lieutenant Burge entered the room the next
morning and told him “You’re going to tell us everything we want to know, how you did it and
everything. Now we’re going to put you through some real fucking changes. We’re going to
start with your fucking balls. We are going to work on you way up again. Work our way back
down ‘till you tell us everything we want to know.” Id. at 1177.
394. Green further testified at his motion to suppress hearing that Burge re-entered the 82
room with Area 2 Detectives McNally and McCabe, Burge uncuffed him from the wall, grabbed
him by the throat, choked him, kneed him in the groin, banged his head against the wall and left
him in the room with Detective McNally. People v. Green, 4/23/83, pp. 56-57.
395. Green further testified that Burge re-entered the room with a long white plastic bag,
and Burge handcuffed both of his hands to an iron ring in the wall, and said “I’m going to do this
eighty-seven more times, and I will try shock treatments if necessary.” Id. at 59-61.
396. Green further testified at his motion to suppress hearing that Burge then picked up
the plastic bag, said “this will leave no visible marks on you,” then snapped it down over his
head while asking him questions, and when Green said he didn’t know anything about a gun,
Burge tightened the bag over his head, held his head back to the wall and pushed his head
against the wall. Green testified that every time he denied knowledge of the crime, Burge
tightened the bag up. Id.
397. Green further testified that after Burge let the bag go he said “I should hit you in the
stomach” and then Burge hit him in the stomach. Id..
398. Green testified that Detective Grunhard removed him from the room, he was taken
to a victims’s house, and transported back to Area 2. At that time, Burge came in the room and
said that if he said anything other than what he previously said to the State’s Attorney, he would
get “the whaling of [his] life.” Burge also kicked him in the knee one time. Id. at 61- 63, 67.
399. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
Green’s allegations.
400. David Bates, who was Gregory Banks’ co-defendant, testified at the Cannon
hearing that he was arrested on October 28, 1983, at approximately 7 or 8 a.m., and he was taken
to Area 2 at 111th and Ellis Streets following his arrest. People v. Cannon, 4/20/00, pp. 104-5, 83
107.
401. Bates further testified that sometime in the early morning hours of October 29,
1983, two Area 2 detectives, whom he identified as Byrne and Grunhard, entered the interview
room where he was being held, asked him questions, and on one occasion, Sergeant Byrne
kicked him in the testicles. Id..
402. Bates testified that after coming into the room to question him and leaving several
times, Byrne and Grunhard again entered the interview room, stated “we got something for guys
like you,” brought him to the middle of the room where Byrne put a plastic bag over his head,
and kept it there for approximately one minute during which he could not breathe. Bates
testified that while the bag was over his head, he was punched in the stomach, which caused him
to gasp, and after he gasped out, the edges of the bag sucked in and he felt he was close to
passing out. Id. at 108-10.
403. Bates further testified that Byrne and Grunhard left the room, then they both
returned and again forced a bag over his head. Bates testified that he was more prepared and
attempted to holler when the bag went over his head the second time, but the attempt used up all
his air. Id. at 111-12.
404. Bates previously gave substantially the same testimony about his torture at his July
1, 1985 motion to suppress hearing. People v. Bates, 7/1/85.
405. Bates’ lawyer, Clarence Burch, testified at Bates’ motion to suppress hearing that
while interviewing Bates at Area 2 on October 30, 1983, he noted that Bates had an abrasion in
the middle, center part of his neck, that Bates informed Burch that he gave a statement regarding
the murders because the officers put a plastic bag over his head, and Bates told him he had
contusions or marks on his chest and stomach. People v. Bates, 7/1/85, pp. 298-300. 84
406. Sergeant Byrne admitted in his deposition in People v. Patterson that he
participated in Bates’ interrogation. Byrne’s Dep., p. 150.
407. Alonzo Smith testified at the Cannon hearing that on January 22, 1983, he
voluntarily went to the station at Area 2 at 91st and Cottage Grove, where he was placed in a
line-up, and then taken from an interview room to the basement of Area 2 by Byrne and Dignan,
where he saw an old white refrigerator. People v. Cannon, 4/20/00, pp. 6-26.
408. Smith further testified that Byrne and Dignan then placed him in a swivel chair with
his hands cuffed behind his back, Dignan hit him in the groin with a nightstick, Byrne kicked
him in the stomach, that Dignan then placed a plastic bag over his head and secured it with a
rubber band, that Byrne then kicked him in the stomach, and that Dignan hit him on his thighs
with the stick, after which he lost consciousness. Id.
409. Smith testified at his motion to suppress hearing that he awoke on the floor, that
Byrne and Dignan then placed him back in the chair and resumed questioning him, and after he
refused to make an inculpatory statement, they again placed the bag over his head for a second
time, and again kicked him in the stomach and beat him on the thighs, causing him to again lose
consciousness, and fall to the floor. Id. at 26-29.
410. Smith further testified that after coming to for the second time, Byrne and Dignan
again placed him back in the swivel chair, and when Byrne started to put the plastic bag on
Smith’s head for the third time, Smith noticed blood on the inside of the bag from his mouth, and
he agreed to make a statement. Id. at 29-31.
411. According to medical records from Cermak Health Services, Smith, upon admission
to the jail, was diagnosed as suffering from “multiple blunt trauma.” Alonzo Smith’s Cermak
Health Services Emergency Room Record, 1/23/83. 85
412. Alonzo Smith also previously described his torture at his June, 1983 motion to
suppress hearing. People v. Alonzo Smith.
413. Sharon Smith, Alonzo Smith’s wife, testified at Smith’s motion to suppress hearing
that when she first saw her husband after his arrest, his lip was swollen, his rib area was swollen
and bruised, and he complained of bruises on his thighs. People v. Smith, 6/27/83, pp. 71-75.
414. Paul Sebron, an employee of the Cook County Department of Corrections, Cermak
Hospital, testified at the motion to suppress that he conducted an initial physical examination of
Alonzo Smith in the receiving area of the Cermak facility on January 22nd or 23rd of 1983. He
testified that Smith said he had swelling on his chest and leg, and that Smith complained about
his thigh and his chest, and that “his lip was out.” Additionally, Sebron testified that in his
reports he noted that Smith had swelling in his upper abdomen, portions of the left hand and left
thigh. People v. Smith, 8/3/83, pp. 186-92.
415. Attorney Latif Abdul Mutakabbir testified at the motion to suppress that while
meeting with Smith on January 22, 1983, at 11th and State Police Headquarters, he observed that
Smith’s face, left side of his rib cage, upper thigh and hands were swollen and discolored and he
saw a cut on Smith’s lip. People v. Smith, 5/30/84, pp. 1470-75.
416. Captain Hunt, a Shift Commander of Division 4 at Cook County Jail, averred in a
sworn affidavit that on January 22, 1983, he interviewed Alonzo Smith, and he observed that
Smith had bruises on his face and hands including discoloration around his eyes. He further
averred that he sent Smith to the hospital because it looked like he needed medical attention.
Affidavit of Captain Hunt, ¶¶ 6, 9.
417. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
Alonzo Smith’s allegations. 86
418. Leonard Hinton testified at his motion to suppress hearing on July 1, 1985 that
when he was arrested on November 25, 1983, he was hit in the stomach and stomped on the
head, then taken to a room at Area 2 where he was handcuffed to a ring in the wall. People v.
Hinton, 7/1/85, pp. 3-5, 7.
419. Hinton further testified that while he was handcuffed, he was slapped in the face,
kicked in the stomach, punched in the mouth, hit with a gun on the elbow and under his chin, and
then one of the Area 2 detectives said “Stop don’t hit him in the face.” Id. at 11-13, 18-22.
420. Hinton further testified at his motion to suppress hearing on July 1, 1985 that
another Area 2 detective came in the room, offered him cigarettes and coffee and he said the
“best thing is to start talking because these guys are going to come back in and they are pretty
mean and they are pretty bad” and that they were not understanding like he was. Id. at 23.
421. Hinton further testified that the Area 2 detectives who initially abused him left the
room, returned with a plastic bag, which he described as a hefty garbage bag but thicker, and an
officer placed it over his head while another officer punched him in the stomach. He testified
that they put the bag over his head twice. Id. at 24-27.
422. Hinton further testified that Lieutenant Burge later came into the room, asked him
whether he knew who he [Burge] was and then identified himself. Hinton testified that Burge
asked him whether he was ready to talk or would he like to have the officers return and continue
what they were doing, and when Hinton said he couldn’t tell him about the murders, Burge got
mad and asked if he was familiar with the electric rod, which was “the same one that had the
Wilson brothers.” Id. at 32-34.
423. Hinton further testified at his motion to suppress hearing on July 1, 1985 that the
detectives returned to the room, and he was then taken to the basement, handcuffed to a pole, his 87
pants were pulled down, a cloth was put in his mouth, and he was electrically shocked on his
genitals and buttocks by a rod attached to a black box. Id. at 37-42.
424. Lieutenant Burge testified at Hinton’s motion to suppress hearing on July 8, 1985
that he worked at Area 2 Violent Crimes from November 25th through the 28th of 1983, that he
came into contact with Hinton, that he appeared in the room where Hinton was questioned to say
hello to him because he had previous dealings with him, that he indicated to Hinton he
remembered him from a previous dealing and asked Hinton if he remembered him. People v.
Hinton, 7/8/85, pp. 97-101.
425. Area 2 Detectives Bajenski and Krippel testified at Hinton’s motion to suppress
hearing on June 11, 1985 that they were involved in Hinton’s arrest and interrogation on
November 25, 1983. People v. Hinton, 6/11/85, pp. 29-30, 34, 43-46.
426. Area 2 Detective Mokry testified at Hinton’s motion to suppress hearing on June
14, 1985 that he interrogated Hinton on November 26, 1983. People v. Hinton, 6/14/85, pp. 85-
86, 88, 90.
427. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
Leonard Hinton’s allegations.
428. Lavert Jones, who was Thomas Craft’s co-defendant, testified on March 5, 1987 at
his motion to suppress hearing that he was arrested on January 28, 1984, and transported to Area
2 at 111th Street. People v. Jones, 3/5/87, pp. 706-8.
429. Jones further testified that while he was handcuffed to the wall in an interview room
at Area 2, John Byrne, Peter Dignan and John Yucaitis beat him on his body with telephone
books and clubs, and kicked him. Id. at 709-14.
430. Jones further testified that while on the phone with his mother who he was telling 88
about the beatings, the phone went dead and he was again beaten and kicked in the genitals by
Dignan and one of the other two detectives, causing him to vomit. Id. at 721-22.
431. According to his arrest report, Stanley Wrice, along with his brother Charles Wrice
and friend Bobby Williams, were arrested at his home on September 9, 1982, at approximately
5:15 a.m. by Sergeant Byrne, Peter Dignan and David Dioguardi and taken to Area 2. Arrest
Report of Stanley Wrice, CR 202019.
432. Wrice, who was also a co-defendant of Lee Holmes, stated in a 1993 OPS statement
that Dignan and Byrne escorted him to the basement of Area 2 where there were a couple of
chairs, and an old, white refrigerator. 1993 OPS Statement of Stanley Wrice.
433. Wrice further stated in his 1993 OPS statement that after he refused to give a
statement, Byrne struck him on the forehead with a black flashlight, while Dignan struck him on
the legs, arms and back with an object resembling a blackjack. Id.
434. Wrice further stated in his 1993 OPS statement that Dignan and Byrne took him
back upstairs and recuffed him to a ring, then left and returned approximately 45 minutes later,
telling Wrice that he was lying. Id.
435. Wrice further stated in his 1993 OPS statement that they then took him back to the
basement of Area 2, where Byrne told Wrice to stand facing a set of iron bars, then struck him
several times on the groin and about the body with a blackjack, while his hands were cuffed
behind him. (Id.).
436. In a January 29, 1994 memorandum from OPS investigator Tillman, she wrote that
she interviewed Bobby Williams on that date and he stated that after being arrested along with
Stanley and Charles Wrice on September 9, 1982, he was subsequently taken to Area 2 where he
was questioned in an interview room by the same two white male officers who transported him 89
to Area 2, and that one of the officers struck him several times on the thighs and once on the
groin with a black, flex object with a ball on one end when he hesitated in responding. January
29, 1994 memorandum from OPS investigator Tillman to Chief Administrator, OPS, CR 202019.
437. In Tillman’s January 29, 1994 memorandum, she wrote that she interviewed Bobby
Williams on that date and that he further stated that while handcuffed to a ring in the wall at
Area 2, he heard Stanley Wrice yelling out and crying, and then saw the same officers who had
beaten him pulling Stanley Wrice as he walked bent over, down the hall in the direction of a
stairwell, then heard again heard Stanley Wrice crying and yelling out. Id.
438. In a motion to Quash Arrest and Suppress Statements and Identification, filed on
December 23, 1982 in the Circuit Court of Cook County and later sworn to in open court,
Rodney Benson averred that on September 9, 1982, he was arrested, taken to a police station,
interrogated, and after he denied committing a rape, he was beaten by the arresting officers with
a flashlight and with a black piece of rubber with tape on both ends, that he was picked up by the
throat and hit in the groin with a flashlight. People v Benson, Motion to Quash and Suppress,
12/23/82.
439. In a motion to Quash Arrest and Suppress Statements and Identification, filed on
December 23, 1982 in the Circuit Court of Cook County and later sworn to in open court,
Rodney Benson averred that after he again denied the rape, he was hit on his groin, back, chest,
stomach and knee by the officers, was threatened with hanging, was told by the officers that they
had hung other niggers, who also threatened to kill him if they ever saw him in a white
neighborhood. Id.
440. In this motion, Rodney Benson averred that the officers stopped beating him only
after he gave a statement. People v Benson, Motion to Quash and Suppress, 12/23/82. 90
441. The arrest reports of Rodney Benson and his co-defendant Stanley Wrice establish
that John Byrne, Peter Dignan and David Dioguardi arrested Benson and Wrice, and Byrne,
Dignan, and Dioguardi admitted in their Motion to Suppress Hearing testimony that they arrested
and questioned Rodney Benson at Area 2 on September 9, 1982. Arrest reports of Rodney
Benson and Stanley Wrice, and testimony of Byrne, Dignan and Dioguardi in People v. Benson
and Wrice,.
442. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
Rodney Bebson’s or Bobby Williams’ allegations.
443. Ronald Kitchen testified at his February 2, 1990 motion to suppress hearing that he
was arrested on August 25, 1986, transported to Area 3, and handcuffed to the wall in an
interview room on the third floor. People v. Kitchen, 2/2/90, pp. 140-45.
444. Kitchen further testified that Detective Kill and a Sergeant punched, hit, slapped
and kicked him in the face, head, ribs, side, back, chest, legs and groin in the interview room.
He also testified that Detective Byron hit him in the head with a telephone receiver, and Officer
Smith hit him with a telephone book and black jack in the ribs and groin. Id. at 146-48, 150,
152-55, 162, 172-73.
445. Kitchen further testified that he gave a statement because he was scared and tired
of being beaten up. Id. at 189.
446. Kitchen further testified that he received treatment at Cermak Hospital including a
sling for his scrotum and pain pills. Id. at 187-91.
447. At his motion to suppress hearing Kitchen identified Area 3 detective Michael Kill
in court and he described the Sergeant as a tall, heavy-set man. Id. at 53, People v. Kitchen,
9/17/90, p. 1243. 91
448. After he was shown photographs of Area 2 and Area 3 officers, Kitchen averred in
a sworn affidavit that Jon Burge was the Sergeant who hit him and kicked him numerous times
in the groin. Affidavit of Ronald Kitchen; Affidavit of Steve Journey.
449. Detectives Thomas Byron, Kill and Smith admitted at Kitchen’s motion to
suppress hearing that they were involved in the murder investigation and interrogation Kitchen at
Area 3 Headquarters on August 25 and 26, 1988. People v. Kitchen, 2/1/90, pp. 38-43, 58, 83-
84.
450. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
Ronald Kitchen’s allegations.
451. In an affidavit dated 10/21/85, Franklin Burchette averred that he turned himself in
to the police on May 24, 1984. Affidavit of Franklin Burchette, 10/21/85.
452. Burchette testified at his motion to suppress hearing that on May 24th, 1984, he
spoke to Area 2 Detective Michael McDermott and was interrogated about a homicide
investigation in an interview room on the second floor of Area 2. People v. Burchette, pp. 4-5.
453. Burchette further testified that detectives repeatedly accused him of the murders
and a detective said “We’re going to get the information before this night is over. You’re going
to tell us everything that happened and why,” and when he asked whether he was going to be
beaten up a detective said “we got other methods.” Id. at 7-8, 20.
454. Burchette further testified that the detective then pulled out an electric prodder,
which was six to nine inches in length and when it was squeezed it would emit a blue flash from
the middle of the device, and the detective then threatened him that if he did not talk that he
would stick the electrical prodder on his genitals. Id.
455. Burchette testified that he was also threatened with a beating, he was not allowed to 92
sleep, and he gave the statement to the detectives that they were seeking so that they would leave
him alone. Id. at 7-8, 20.
456. Area 2 Detective Solecki testified that he and Detective DiGiacomo interrogated
Burchette and that Lieutenant Burge contacted the State’s Attorney and consulted with the
State’s Attorney before the statement was taken. Burchette’s Habeas Petition, R. 58-75l; R. 667-
70.
457. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
Franklin Burchette’s allegations.
458. Derrick King testified at his motion to suppress hearing on November 20, 1980 that
he was arrested in the vicinity of 79th and Wood on February 23, 1980, around 7:30 p.m. and was
first taken to the 6th District and then to he was taken to Area 2. People v. King, Coleman,
11/20/80, pp. 151-54, 158.
459. King testified that he was taken from the 6th District to another police station to a
section called homicide where he was beaten by police officers in the kneecaps and chest with a
baseball bat because he wouldn’t give them a statement concerning a murder. Id. at 67.
460. Michael Coleman, who was Derrick King’s co-defendant, testified at his motion to
suppress hearing on November 20, 1980 that he was arrested as he entered his apartment in the
early morning hours of February 24, 1980, by three police officers who were inside of his
apartment. Two more were in an unmarked car that transported him to Area 2. Id., p.116.
461. Coleman further testified that after being taken to an upstairs interview room at
Area 2, he was shown a gun, then Detective Dwyer kicked him in the groin. Coleman further
stated that he then ran over to the wall and balled up to protect himself, and Dwyer continued to
hit and kick him. Id. at 119. 93
462. Coleman further testified that a couple of hours after the initial beating, Dwyer and
a bigger officer entered the interview room, at which time the bigger officer grabbed him in a
choke hold and Dwyer took a pair of tweezers and started pulling out stitches on his head which
were over his right eye. Id. at 123.
463. King’s attorney, Eugene O’Malley, filed a motion to suppress statements on behalf
of King, asserting that King was subjected to “physical and psychological coercion” by members
of the Chicago police Department which included being struck repeatedly by Chicago Police
officers and being told that until he made a written confession the physical abuse would
continue. People v. King, Coleman, King’s Motion to Suppress Statements.
464. King’s motion to suppress further asserted that one of the Chicago police officers
who interrogated King was, “J. Pienta, Star [#] 10063.” Id.
465. J. Pienta, #10063, is listed on the first page of an “Arrest and Clearing Report”
dated February 24, 1980, for Derrick King and Michael Coleman, as a “Reporting Officer,” and
described within the report as both an arresting officer for Coleman and as an investigating
officer on the case; Pienta is further listed as a reporting officer on a Line-Up Report concerning
the Coleman and King line-up as a reporting officer. King and Coleman’s Police Reports, dated
2/24/80.
466. Jon Burge testified at King and Coleman’s motion to suppress hearing that on
February 23, 1980, he was the supervising Sergeant assigned to Area 2 Robbery and he was
present with Detectives Corless and Basile for a conversation with King at approximately 8:30
p.m. on February 23, 1980, at Area 2 in an interview room. Burge further testified that between
8:30 p.m. on February 23, 1980 and 2:00 a.m. on February 24, 1980, he was in and out of King’s 94
and Coleman’s interrogations, and that he personally asked questions of both King and Coleman.
People v. King, Coleman, 11/26/80, pp. 371-72, 378, 380, 384.
467. Basile testified at King and Coleman’s motion to suppress hearing that Sergeant
Burge was present through most of King’s questioning regarding the homicide. He also admitted
that a number of officers were involved in numerous interviews of King over the course of the
evening and morning, “as many as half a dozen officers, perhaps seven either directly or
indirectly involved,” in the interrogations of King, including Burge. People v. King, Coleman,
11/20/80, pp. 301, 303.
468. Detective Dwyer testified at King and Coleman’s motion to suppress hearing that
Coleman and King were interviewed at Area 2 at various times by, inter alia, Detectives Dwyer,
Corless, Basile and DiGiacomo, as well as Sergeant Burge. Id., p. 229.
469. Detective DiGiacomo testified at King and Coleman’s motion to suppress hearing
that after he first encountered King at Area 2 on February 23, 1980 at approximately 8:00 p.m.
and had a conversation, Sergeant Burge, Detectives Dwyer, DiGiacomo, Corless, Basile, and
Pienta and Sergeant Burge all went with Derrick King to 65th and Loomis to look for Michael
Coleman. People v. King, Coleman, 11/20/80, pp. 321-25.
470. Burge admitted in his testimony at King and Coleman’s motion to suppress
hearing that he was present when Coleman was arrested and police reports set forth that Basile,
Dwyer, Corless, DiGiacomo and Pienta were also present. People v. King, Coleman, 11/26/80,
p. 376; Police Reports dated 2/24/80.
471. State witness Leon White testified at King and Coleman’s motion to suppress
hearing that when he viewed the line-up conducted on February 24, 1980, containing Derrick 95
King and his co-defendant Michael Coleman, that King didn’t look like his [King’s] picture
which the police had previously shown him; that King’s face was swollen and his eye was
bruised. People v. King, Coleman, p. 205.
472. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
Derrick King or Michael Coleman’s allegations.
473. Mearon Diggins averred in a sworn affidavit that on October 9, 1985, he was
beaten in an Area 2 interview room on his lower body with a flashlight by detectives Pienta,
Marley, Paladino and Pederson, in order to obtain a statement, and that his complaint was
corroborated by physical evidence. Affidavit of Mearon Diggins.
474. In October of 1985, Diggins’ filed an OPS complaint in which he alleged that he
was repeatedly beaten by Area 2 Detectives during his October 9, 1985 interrogation. Diggins
Affidavit..
475. The City produced Diggins’ OPS complaint and CR file in September, 1989 for in
camera review during Aaron Patterson’s criminal trial, and the Court made it part of the record,
but it is now missing from the record. Patterson, Tr. 1424-34, 1626-33.
476. The City now asserts that it is unable to find Diggins’ CR file. Letter of Dan
Noland.
477. In a sworn court reported statement dated July 5, 2004, Diggins identified detective
John Paladino as the detective who repeatedly beat him, and Burge as the person who was
repeatedly in and out of the interview room prior and subsequent to the beatings. July 5, 2004
Statement of Mearon Diggins.
478. Diggins further averred that pictures showing his injury were taken and made part 96
of the OPS file. Id.
479. Terrence Houston, a 16 year old juvenile, alleged in his signed statement to OPS
and in a sworn deposition that he was hit with a flashlight on his knee and shocked with a stun
gun on his left leg by a white male uniformed officer who arrested him and took him to the
police station on October 13, 1986, after he was falsely accused of a robbery. Summary Report
and OPS Statement of Terrence Houston in CR# 153302, Depositions in Houston v. Lotito et. al.
480. Fourth District Tactical Officers John Lotito, who is Area 2 detective James
Lotito’s brother, and John Mablocki, have been identified as Houston’s arresting officers. Id.
481. Houston further stated that he was questioned at the Fourth District regarding the
robbery, that he was punched in the stomach and slapped in the face by a white male plainclothes
officer while being questioned, and that the officer was 5'6" or 5'7", 300 lbs. Id.
482. James Pienta stated in his interview with OPS and at his deposition that on October
13, 1986, that he interviewed Houston at the Fourth District, and he described himself as white
male, 5'9", 270 lbs., and 41 years old. Summary Report, 1987 OPS statement of James Pienta,
and Pienta’s GPR documenting interviews with Houston and Darrell Cleveland in CR# 153302;
Pienta Dep. in Houston.
483. Terrence Houston filed a civil lawsuit against Pienta, Mablocki, Lotito and the City
of Chicago seeking damages for the abuse allegedly perpetrated against him on October 13,
1986, and the City subsequently settled Houston’s civil case for $25,000. Houston v. Marblocki,
Lotito and Pienta.
484. Michael Tillman testified on November 21, 1986 at his motion to suppress hearing
that on July 21, 1986, he was transported to the Area 2 police station at 111th Street by Area 2 97
Detectives Dignan and Boffo and held in a room on the second floor. People v. Bell, Tillman,
11/21/86, pp. 856-58.
485. Tillman further testified that Area 2 Detectives Yucaitis, Dignan, Boffo and Hines
suffocated him with a thick, gray plastic bag over his head, hit him with a flashlight on his leg,
hit him with a phone book on his head, hit him in the head and stomach with their hands, kicked
him in the leg and threatened him with a gun to his head. Id. at 863-65, 875, 877-78, 881, 885,
887, 891, 897-98, 904, 908.
486. During his motion to suppress testimony, Tillman identified Detectives Dignan,
Yucaitis, Boffo and Hines as the officers who interrogated him and committed the abuse. (Id.)
487. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
Michael Tillman’s allegations.
488. Stephen Bell testified on December 11, 1986 that he voluntarily went to Area 2 on
July 21, 1986, and after he was questioned and placed in a line up, he was returned to an
interview room on the second floor. People v. Tillman, Bell, 12/11/86, pp. 2060-63.
489. Bell testified that three Area 2 detectives, including Detective Yucaitis, brought
Michael Tillman into his interview room, then left with Tillman; later, Detectives Boffo,
Yucaitis, Dignan and Sergeant Byrne entered the interview room while Bell had one hand cuffed
to a bar above the bench he was sitting on. People v. Tillman, Bell, 11/20/86, pp. 794-99.
490. Bell further testified that Yucaitis, who was carrying a telephone book, told him
that he was “going to start telling the truth;” then, after Dignan cuffed Bell’s free arm to the wall,
Yucaitis began hitting Bell on the top of the head with the phone book. Id.
491. Bell further testified that Byrne then walked behind him, stood on the bench Bell 98
was sitting on, and kicked him in his ribs, while Dignan hit him on his forehead with the palm of
his hand, causing Bell’s head to hit the wall, and also struck him in the face with his fist. Id. at
800-1.
492. Bell further testified that he eventually agreed to go along with whatever Byrne,
Boffo, Byrne, Dignan and Yucaitis said about the crime in order to end the abuse. Id., p. 2071.
493. Sergeant Byrne testified on November 20, 1986 at the motion to suppress hearing
that he was the supervising Sergeant on duty for the first watch from midnight to 8:00 a.m. at
Area 2 on July 22, and 23, 1986, that Tillman and Bell were in custody at Area 2 on July 22,
1986, and that Yucaitis, Dignan and Boffo were working under his command on the first watch
that morning. People v. Tillman, Bell, 11/20/86, pp. 498-500.
494. Byrne further testified that he entered both Bell’s and Tillman’s interview rooms
while they were being held on September 22, 1986, and that it was possible that he was in the
interview room with Bell, along with detectives Yucaitis, Dignan and Boffo. Id. at 504.
495. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
Michael Tillman’s or Stephen Bell’s allegations.
496. Clarence Trotter testified that three weeks after Tillman and Bell’s interrogation, he
was handcuffed and brought into Area 2 and questioned by Area 2 Detective Madigan about the
same murder for which Bell and Tillman had been previously questioned and arrested. Trotter’s
Petition for Post-Conviction Relief, p. 9 and People v Trotter, pp. 2525-26, 2562, 2676, 2688.
497. Trotter further testified that he requested to speak to an attorney and Detective
Madigan slammed him against the wall and arrested him. Id..
498. June Brown, Trotter’s sister, testified that she visited her brother at the station the 99
day after his arrest and that Trotter looked sickly, tired, and his right eye was bruised. Id. at 13,
and People v. Trotter, pp. 3043-46.
499. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
Clarence Trotter’s allegations.
500. LC Riley testified at his motion to suppress hearing that he was interviewed by
Detectives Raymond Madigan and Robert Dwyer on August 28 and 29, 1985. People v. Riley,
230 Ill. App. 3d 1013, 1017, (1992); People v. Riley, March 13, 1987.
501. LC Riley further testified that he was handcuffed to a wall in an Area 2 interview
room and when he did not supply answers or information, Detective Madigan slapped him,
twisted his arm, and punched him in the stomach, and that Detective Dwyer punched him and
struck him with a newspaper. Id.
502. On September 14, 1985, Riley received medical attention for “blunt trauma” at a
hospital after he coughed up blood while brushing his teeth. Id.
503. Detectives Madigan and Dwyer testified at Riley’s motion to suppress hearing that
they were involved in Riley’s detention and interrogation. Id.
504. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into LC
Riley’s allegations.
505. Andrew Maxwell testified at his motion to suppress hearing on July 23, 1987 that
on November 4, 1986, he was taken to a police station, charged with robbery, and detained in
Cook County Jail. People v. Maxwell, 7/23/87, pp.19, 21-23.
506. Maxwell further testified that on November 12, 1986, two detectives brought him to
the State’s Attorney’s Office at 26th and California, they then transported him to the police 100
station at 111th and Ellis, where they placed him in an interview room and questioned him about
a murder. Id. at 24-26.
507. Maxwell further testified that the detectives hit him on his back and side, kicked his
leg, slapped him in the face, and his foot was stepped on causing him to give a statement to the
murder. Id. at 27, 30, 32, 35, 38.
508. At his motion to suppress hearing Maxwell identified Area 2 Detective Glynn as
one of the officers in the room. Id.
509. At Maxwell’s motion to suppress hearing, Area 2 Detective McDermott identified
himself, Paladino and Glynn as participating in Maxwell’s interrogation on the 12th. Id. at 31;
People v. Maxwell, 11/5/86, pp. 333-34, 346.
510. Jerry Thompson, Maxwell’s co-defendant, testified at his motion to suppress on
July 23, 1987 that two Area 2 detectives beat him, repeatedly struck him with a flashlight, and
kicked him while he was questioned on November 12, 1986. People v. Maxwell, Thompson and
Howard, 7/23/87, pp. 101-108.
511. Maxwell’s other co-defendant, Gregory Howard, testified at his motion to suppress
on July 23, 1987 that Area 2 detective Basile, in the presence of Glynn, kicked him several times
and slapped him while he was being questioned on November 12, 1986. Id., pp. 493-500.
512. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
Andrew Maxwell’s, Jerry Thompson’s, or Gregory Howard’s allegations.
513. James Cody testified at his motion to suppress on April 23, 1984 that he was taken
into custody on November 11, 1983, and brought to Area 2 Police Headquarters. People v.
Cody, 4/23/84, pp. 88-90. 101
514. Cody further testified that at Area 2 he was struck with a flashlight in the knees,
punched in the back, shoved against a wall, and shocked with a stick on his testicles and
buttocks. Id. at 89-90, 98-100, 110, 115, 122.
515. During his testimony, Cody identified Area 2 detectives Paladino, Basile, and
McNally as the officers who interrogated and abused him. Id. at 90, 98-100, 115, 122.
516. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
James Cody’s allegations.
517. Lonza Holmes testified at his motion to suppress hearing that he was taken to a
room on the second floor at Area 2 on May 30, 1985, and questioned by several officers,
including Lieutenant Burge and Detective Madigan. People v. Lonza Holmes, 12/12/85, p. 120.
518. Holmes further testified that Burge slapped him in the face and told him that they
had ways of getting information. Id. at 123-27, 137-140.
519. Holmes testified that he was taken into another room where Burge handcuffed him
tightly to a bar behind his back, and while he was in that room, Madigan and his partner punched
him in the chest, kicked him around his ankles, and Burge hit him over the head with a yellow
pages phone book. Id. at 123-27, 137-140.
520. Holmes further testified that when he refused to talk, Burge chopped him under the
neck and hit him in the stomach with his fist, and that after Burge left the room, detective
Madigan and his partner drove him to an alley behind the deceased’s house and to his house. Id.
at 140.
521. In his trial testimony, Lonza Homes described Lieutenant Burge as a white man
with red hair, on the heavy side, from 220 lbs. to 230 lbs. People v. Holmes, 6/26/86, p. 94. 102
522. McKinley Holmes, Lonza Holmes’s brother, testified at Lonza Holmes’ motion to
suppress hearing that he saw his brother on May 31, 1985 in a police car driven near their home,
and he saw that the right side of his brother’s face and his left eye were swollen and that his
forehead was bruised. People v. Lonza Holmes, 12/12/85, pp. 182-85.
523. McKinley Holmes further testified that he went to Area 2 Headquarters in the
evening of May 31, 1985, he was told that three to four officers were interrogating his brother
including Officer Madigan. He testified that when he saw his brother at the station, his face was
still swollen, and his brother said he was hit under the throat, hit with a telephone book in the
head and that one of the officers repeatedly hit him in the stomach. Id.
524. Jon Burge testified at Holmes’ motion to suppress hearing that he was involved in
Lonza Holmes’ criminal investigation, that he listened outside the door, and he stepped inside
the room and observed parts of the interrogation. He also testified that he worked the four p.m.
to midnight shift. He described himself as being 6'3" and 240 lbs. on May 30, 1985. People v.
Lonza Holmes, 2/29/86, pp. 3-4, 6-8.
525. Detectives Madigan and Dignan testified at Holmes’ motion to suppress hearing
that they interrogated Lonza Holmes on May 31, 1985. Id. at 15-16; People v. Lonza Holmes,
2/12/86, pp. 15-18, 20-22.
526. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
Lonza Holmes’ allegations.
527. At an October 1, 1984 motion to suppress hearing, James Andrews testified that he
was picked up on April 26, 1983 and taken to Area 2 at 111th Street. People v. Andrews, 10/1/84,
pp. 26-33. 103
528. James Andrews testified that on April 26, 1983, he was questioned about a murder
by Detectives Madigan and McWeeny at Area 2 in an interview room. Id., pp. 37-41.
529. James Andrews further testified that during the questioning, Madigan grabbed him
by the collar while he was handcuffed and punched him twice in the stomach, then punched him
three additional times in the stomach Id., pp. 45-46, 48-49.
530. Andrews further testified that later in the questioning, detective Madigan hit him
a few more times with his flashlight and with his fists. Id., pp. 57.
531. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
James Andrews’ allegations.
532. Andrews’ co-defendant, David Faultneroy, also alleged in his motion to suppress
that he was beaten by Madigan during his interrogation. People v. Andrews, Faultneroy.
533. At his November 8, 1991 Motion to Suppress hearing, Cortez Brown testified that
on September 21, 1990, he was transported from Area 1 Police Station to the Area 3 Police
Station where he was handcuffed to the wall in an interview room and questioned by Area 3
Detectives. People v. Brown, 11/8/91, pp. 9-11.
534. Brown further testified that during this questioning, two detectives “started
whipping [him] on the arms and in [his] chest,” and that one hit him 8 or 9 times on the chest,
and the other hit him several times with a steel flashlight on his hands and legs. Id., pp.12-14.
535. At the Brown motion to suppress hearing, Area 3 detectives Maslanka and
Paladino testified that they participated in the questioning of Cortez Brown. People v. Brown.
536. Neither the OPS nor the CPD has opened a complaint register investigation into
Cortez Brown’s allegations. 104
537. "Plaintiff's Proffer of Other Acts of Beating, Torture and Electroshock By
Defendant Burge and Other Detectives," filed on May 11, 1989 and served on the City of
Chicago by Andrew Wilson's lawyers in Wilson’s civil rights trial set forth that:
Edward James and James Lewis were arrested in Memphis, Tennessee by Burge
and Area 2 detective Wagner. Burge said “wait until we get you back to the
horror chamber. We know how to squeeze a man’s nuts.” When they returned to
Chicago, Burge asked if the man on duty was the one who killed Fred Hampton
and Mark Clark. Burge said “when we get through with you you’ll be glad to tell
us what we want.”
Area 2 Burge presided over the interrogation of Lewis and James in separate
rooms. Burge laughed when each asked for an attorney saying “you know better
than that.’ Lewis was hit in the throat and slapped in the side of the head, injuring
his eardrum. When James refused to talk, he was struck in the mouth by Burge
and punched in the neck. James was told he was “gonna talk before 12:00.”
538. James and Lewis previously set forth their versions of their arrests, transport,
interrogations, and abuse in their testimony at their motion to suppress hearing in March of
1980. People v. James and Lewis, 3/10/80.
539. James again detailed these events in a law suit he filed and in a court reported
statement given in Patterson v. Burge on April 19, 2004.
540. The OPS opened a Complaint Register, CR # 173408, as a result of the James
lawsuit, but the complaint was found to be “not sustained.”
541. Plaintiff's Proffer set forth that sometime between 1972 and 1974:
Howard Collins was arrested by Burge and then detective, now commander, Hoke. They
drove him around in their police vehicle, pointed their guns at him and then pulled the
triggers, but the chambers were empty. He was taken to Area II where he was
interrogated and beaten by Burge and Hoke for one and one half hours, during which time they
put a rope around his neck in a noose-like fashion, and injured his throat. When
Reverend Daniel, a police Board member, came to Area II to inquire about Collins, he was
released. An OPS complaint was subsequently filed.
542. [Deleted]. 105
543. [Deleted]
544. [Deleted]
545. [Deleted].
546. In an Affidavit dated April 2, 2004, Robert Billingsley averred that he had been
arrested for murder by Detective Robert Dwyer, who pointed a gun at him while he sat on the
toilet, and two or three other white detectives and taken to the police station. Billingsley
Affidavit, ¶¶ 3-5.
547. In his Affidavit, Billingsley averred that the arresting officers kicked him while
going up the stairs, then handcuffed and beat him in the interrogation room. He further averred
that they stuffed papers down his throat until he was gagging and bleeding, beat him on his arm
where he had previously been burned while cooking, handcuffed him to the wall and whipped
him with phone books and other objects; that his eye was messed up pretty badly, he was
bleeding like a pig, and they kept trying to get him to confess to shooting the man. Id., ¶ 5.
548. Billingsley further averred that at one point the arresting detectives opened the
door a girl he knew from high school saw him and started screaming for them to stop. Id.,¶ 6.
549. Billingsley averred that they beat him the next day, they took him into his
neighborhood, he was bleeding a lot, he was seen by his family, by Henry Little, who was the
man who committed the shooting, and Little’s father, and they came into the station because they
thought the police would kill him if they didn’t. Id., ¶¶ 7-8.
550. Robert Billingsley further averred that Little confessed to being the shooter,
Billingsley was released, and he went to South Shore Hospital for treatment, and an investigator
spoke to him about what had happened to him. Id., ¶¶ 8-9. 106
551. Robert Billingsley further averred that his mother called in a complaint to OPS
and sometime later, Dwyer and one of the other white detectives who had beaten him came to his
house and offered him $3000 to drop the complaint. He further averred that he agreed to drop the
complaint, and that Dwyer and the other officer drove him to some office to do so. Id. ¶¶ 10-11.
552. In his affidavit, Billingsley averred that given what the detectives had already done
to him, he was afraid for his life. Id., ¶ 14.
553. In a sworn court reported statement dated July 24, 2004, Rodney Mastin averred
that on August 4 or 5, 1972 detectives, including Jon Burge came to his house and took him and
Philip “Smoky” Moore to Area 2 for questioning about a home invasion which had left a young
white boy severely injured. Statement of Rodney Mastin, pp 4-6.
554. In his statement, Mastin averred that on August 4 or 5, 1972, Area 2 detectives,
including Jon Burge, took him and Moore up the stairs at Area 2 then past a room where he saw
an unrecognizable person handcuffed to the wall in a room he walked by. He further averred that
the young black male looked like he had been in a car accident, with his facial features distorted,
swollen and bleeding, apparently seriously injured and unconscious. Id., pp 7-9.
555. In his statement, Mastin averred that Burge and the other detectives then took him
and Moore into an open room, told them that they knew that he and “Smoky” were involved in a
home invasion during which a young boy had been severely beaten, and that before they left the
room they were going to tell them everything they knew about the case. Id., pp 8-10.
556. In his statement, Mastin further averred that the detectives then brought the
unrecognizable man in from the other room and sat him down across from Mastin and Moore,
and he recognized the person as Lindsey Smith, a person he knew very well and saw on a daily 107
basis. Id., pp 10-11.
557. Rodney Mastin further averred that the detective asked Smith, who looked like a
mess, who was involved in the beating and home invasion, and Smith said “Rodney and Smoky
did it.” Id., pp 11-12.
558. In his statement, Mastin averred that Moore and Smith were taken from the room
and he was questioned by Burge. He further averred that Burge was walking around him during
the questioning, and when he gave answers that Burge did not like, he was either punched in the
head or knocked to the floor, he was kicked once in the groin, slapped, backhanded, punched in
the chest and face, snatched from the floor and slammed back into the chair, and hit on the head
with an ashtray. Id., pp 13-16.
559. Mastin further averred that Burge was always in the room and was one of the
officers who did the beatings. He further averred that there was always at least two officers in the
room, with others coming and going. Id., pp 13-14.
560. Mastin averred that he gave a written statement so the beatings would stop. Id., pp
16-18.
561. Mastin further averred that pictures were taken of Smith which showed his distorted
face and that Moore later told him that he was punched during his questioning. Id., pp 19-20.
562. In his statement, Mastin averred that there was a motion to suppress hearing at
which evidence of the beatings was presented and at which Burge and other detectives testified
and denied any abuse. Id., pp 25-26.
563. In a sworn court reported statement taken on August 25, 2004, Ollie Hammonds
averred that on or about September 21, 1979, he was arrested by Chicago Police officers, 108
including Jon Burge, and George Basile,, and taken to Area 2 where he was questioned about
the same homicide that George Powell was arrested for. 8/25/04 Hammonds Statement, pp. 2-5.
564. Hammonds further averred that when he denied involvement, Burge, Basile, and
two other detectives beat him on his chest and legs. These beatings continued for six to eight
hours. Id. pp. 6-8.
565. Hammonds further averred that sometime during this six to eight hour period,
Basile produced a black box, the size of a car battery, which had prongs sticking up and two
wires extending from it. Id., pp. 8-9.
566. Hammonds further averred that Burge asked him did he know what this did to a
man’s dick if we put the two wires on it, and Basile demonstrated it by touching the two wires
together, and sparks jumped out. Id., p. 9.
567. Hammonds averred that he told them he would tell them what they wanted him to
say, but he would tell the judge that they told him to say it. The detectives were not satisfied, and
they moved him to a cell where they handcuffed him to the wall, and held him incommunicado
for two and one half days, without food, water, or access to the washroom. Id., pp. 9-10, 13
568. Hammonds further averred that during this period of time, he refused to cooperate,
and Burge, Basile, and the other detectives punched him on numerous occasions. Id., pp. 10-11.
569. Hammonds averred that he was charged with the same murder as George Powell
was charged with, was held inCounty Jail for 33 days, then released when the Judge found no
probable cause. Id., pp. 15-16.
570. In an OPS statement, Ty Shaun Ross stated that he was electric shocked and
otherwise abused by Area 3 detectives, including Daniel McWeeny, while he was being 109
interrogated on June 5, 1991. CR 185626.
571. [Deleted] while his co-defendant, Travis Richardson, stated that his head was
slammed on a table. [Deleted].
572. All of the 100 alleged victims of police torture and abuse by Area 2 and Area 3
detectives and supervisors whose allegations are known to the Plaintiff are African-American.
Plaintiff’s Listing of Known Burge, Area 2 and 3 Torture Victims, 1972-1991.
573. On April 24, 2002, Judge Paul Biebel, Chief Judge of the Cook County Criminal
Division, appointed Special Prosecutors Edward Egan and Robert Boyle to investigate
allegations of police torture and abuse at Area 2 and Area 3.
574. On June 8, 2004, in open court, Special Prosecutor Robert Boyle stated that the
Special Prosecutor’s Office was investigating 108 cases of alleged torture and physical abuse at
Area 2 and 3. In Re: The Matters of Leonard Bajenski, et. al., June 8, 2004, p. 27.
575. From 1972 to the present, the only police department discipline which has been
imposed against any Area 2 or Area 3 detective, supervisor, or command officer for any
allegations of torture or physical abuse made against them has been the firing of Jon Burge and
the suspension of John Yucaitis for the torture of Andrew Wilson on February 14, 1982.
576. From 1972 to the present, the City of Chicago and its Police Department has
conducted no criminal investigations into any of the allegations of torture or other physical abuse
made against Area 2 and Area 3 detectives and supervisors, including, but not limited to, the
alleged victims named above.
577. From 1972 to the present, the City of Chicago and its Police Department has not
sought criminal charges against any Area 2 and Area 3 detective or supervisor on the basis of 110
allegations of torture or other physical abuse, including, but not limited to, those made by the
alleged victims named above.
578. On February 11, 1993., the Chicago Police Board ordered that Jon Burge be
separated from the Chicago Police Department and John Yucaitis be suspended for 15 months
for torturing and physically abusing Andrew Wilson. In The Matter of the Charges Filed
Against Jon Burge, No. 91-1856 (Chicago Police Board, February 11, 1993).
579. On February 10, 1994, Cook County Circuit Court Judge Thomas O’Brien
affirmed the Police Board’s order separating Burge and suspending Yucaitis, and on December
15, 1995, the Illinois Appellate Court affirmed Judge O’Brien’s ruling. Burge v. Police Board of
the City of Chicago, No. 93 CH 2265, (Circuit Court of Cook County, February 10, 1994);
Burge, O’Hara and Yucaitis v. Police Board of the City of Chicago, No. 1-94-999, 1-94-2462,
1-94-2475 (consolidated) (Ill. App. Ct., December 15, 1995, unpublished).
580. Twenty-nine of the 30 former Area 2 and area 3 detectives who have taken the fifth
Amendment are either receiving salaries or pensions from the City of Chicago.
a. former Commander Jon Burge (pension)
b. former Sergeant John Byrne (pension)
c. former detective James Pienta (pension)
d. Sergeant Raymond Madigan (salary)
e. former detective John Paladino (pension)
f. former detective James Lotito (pension)
g. Commander William Garrity (salary)
h. former detective Daniel McWeeny (pension)
i. former Lieutenant Dennis McGuire (pension)
j. former detective Raymond McNally (pension)
k. former detective Robert Flood (pension)
l. former detective William Marley (pension)
m.former detective David Dioguardi (pension)
n. former Lieutenant Peter Dignan (pension)
o. detective Robert Dwyer (salary)
p. former detective Joseph Danzl (pension)
q. detective Michael Bosco (salary) 111
r. former detective Leonard Bajenski (pension)
581. The following criminal defendants who have alleged torture and abuse by Area 2
or 3 detectives have received new hearings or trial, or had their statement suppressed on the basis
of evidence of Area 2 or 3 torture and abuse in the following cases:
a. Andrew Wilson : People v. Wilson, 116 Ill.2d 29 (1987);
b. Darrell Cannon: People v. Cannon, 293 lll. App. 3d 634 (1997);
c. Aaron Patterson: People v. Patterson, 192 Ill. 2d 93, (2000);
d. Gregory Banks: People v. Banks, 192 Ill. App. 3d 986 (1989);
e. David Bates: People v. Bates, 267 Ill. App. 3d 503, 505 (1994);
f. Derrick King: People v. King, 192 Il. 2d 189 (2000);
g. Stanley Howard: People v. Howard, 84 C 13134. (Ill. Sup. Ct. Order of 6/18/99);
h. Jesse Clemon: People v. Clemon, 259 Ill. App.3d 5, (1994).
582. In a May 21, 2003 Chicago Tribune article, Special Prosecutor Egan was quoted as
saying: "We believe something happened. You'd have to be a chump not to." “Probers Believe
Brutality Claims,” Chicago Tribune, May 21, 2003.
583. On March 3, 1998, upon becoming Police Superintendent, Terry Hillard told the
Chicago Sun Times that “barring new evidence, it's time to close the book on the Burge era and
move on.” Hillard Dep., Santiago v. Marquez, 5/3/99, pp. 32-33, 35-36, 43-46
584. In an August 31, 1998 memo from the office of the Superintendent , Thomas
Needham, General Counsel to the Superintendent, to Leonard Benefico, Office of Professional
Standards, Needham listed the following cases:
Darrell Cannon CR#134723
Stanley Howard CR# 142017
Gregory Banks CR# 188617
Lee Holmes CR# 126802
Philip Adkins CR# 142201
Donald White CR# 169867
Lavert Jones CR# 200390
Stanley Ware CR# 202019 112
Michael Johnson CR# 125071
and wrote that “you are hereby instructed to classify all of the allegations in the above
referenced complaint register files as ‘not sustained.’” August 31, 1998 memo from Thomas
Needham, General Counsel to the Superintendent, to Leonard Benefico, Office of Professional
Standards.
585. As a basis for this unprecedented order, Needham cited the age of the cases and the
purported lack of “new evidence,” when, in fact, a wealth of new evidence had been developed
by the OPS investigators in almost all of the cases. Id.; CR files of listed cases; Testimony of
OPS investigators at People v. Cannon Hearing.
586. Superintendent Hillard, after talking to Neeedham about his decision, ratified his
actions in “not sustaining’” these cases, stating, under oath, that “I support Tom Needham 100
percent when it comes down to representing me in this department in hard cases like that.”
Hillard Dep., Santiago v. Marquez, 5/3/99, pp. 32-33, 35-36.
587. In a letter dated August 2, 1999, from Citizens Alert, addressed to Superintendent
Terry Hillard, OPS Director Callie Baird and Police Board President Demitrius Carney, the
signators wrote:
We write as a group of public officials, citizens and organizations concerned with
police violence and discipline to urge you to immediately reopen and review several
Office of Professional Standards (OPS) investigations into police torture, and to open
investigations in numerous other torture cases where no OPS investigations have been
conducted. We further urge you to commission an independent investigation into the
obvious violations of police regulations and procedure and legal process by certain OPS
and police officials during the torture investigations which were conducted by the OPS.
August 2, 1999 Letter from Citizens Alert, Mary Powers et. al. to Hillard, Carney, and Baird.
588. In the August 2, 1999 letter, the signators further wrote: 113
Recent news articles and publicly released documents and depositions reveal that the
OPS reopened nine torture investigations in 1992 and 1993 as a result of prior OPS
findings that physical abuse of African American suspects at Area 2 from 1973 to 1986
included "psychological techniques and planned torture," was "systematic," and
"methodical," and that Area 2 command members, particularly Jon Burge, "were aware
of the systematic abuse and perpetuated it either by actively participating in same or
failing to take any action to bring it to an end." Goldston Report, pp 2-3. The now public
evidence further reveals that OPS investigators Tillman, Lawrence, and Cosey conducted
thorough investigations in each of these cases, discovered new evidence not available
during the initial investigations, and sustained findings in six of the cases. The sustained
findings included findings that victims were electric shocked, suffocated with a plastic
bag, suspended in air by their handcuffs, beaten and stomped, and racially abused. The
evidence further shows that these sustained findings were entered against several police
officers who were and are still Chicago police officers in good standing, most notably
Lieutenant Peter Dignan, who had allegations of torture and abuse sustained against him
in five of the six cases. The evidence further reveals that these findings and the
investigative files were tendered to OPS Director Gayle Shines in 1994 for her review,
and that she overturned the findings in four of the cases in late 1994 and early 1995, at
the same time that Peter Dignan was nominated by the Mayor and the Department for
merit promotion to Lieutenant. Ms. Shines has admitted that in the approximately 2500
sustained cases which she reviewed during her eight year career as Director, she
overturned a total of 10 cases, including these four against Dignan.
The evidence further shows that in the other two cases, Darrell Cannon and Stanley
Howard, Ms. Shines never completed her review of the sustained findings of torture, but
rather kept these files in her office for four years, together with the other seven files.
Cannon, who was on trial in a murder case, and Howard, who is on death row, sought
these files by subpoena, but Shines and the Department failed to produce these files,
which contained highly exculpatory evidence. Furthermore, after Ms. Shines left the OPS
in 1998, counsel to the Superintendent, Thomas Needham, obtained the nine torture files
from the OPS and, without consultation with the Superintendent, summarily reversed the
sustained findings and closed the cases. Needham, who, as a longtime assistant state’s
attorney, was closely connected to the prosecution of several torture victims, including
Cannon, admitted that his summary reversals of the torture findings were not based on
the merits of the cases, but rather on the fact that the files had languished in Shines’
office for so long a period of time. The Superintendent never reviewed these cases on the
merits as he is required by police procedure to do, and he only learned of his counsel’s
unjustifiable actions by reading about them in a February 1999 Chicago Tribune article.
Additionally, the public evidence reveals that the OPS failed to investigate numerous
additional documented cases of police torture against African American suspects. In the
case of Melvin Jones, Mary Powers of Citizen’s Alert specifically requested by a letter
dated July 26, 1989 that the OPS open an investigation into the recently revealed
allegations that Jones was electric shocked at by Jon Burge and several other Area 2
detectives who remain on the force to this day. Contrary to police and OPS procedure, no
investigation was ever opened, despite the fact that the City has subsequently admitted in 114
official court papers that Jones was in fact tortured. Similarly, in the Shadeed Mumin
case, an investigation was opened and OPS investigators developed compelling new
evidence that he was tortured by Burge and an unidentified detective. Just as the OPS
investigator was about to identify this officer, the OPS discontinued the investigation,
supposedly because the investigation had not been assigned a complaint register number.
In numerous other cases, including Aaron Patterson and nine other men who are
presently on death row as a result of confessions which they allege were tortured from
them, the OPS has failed to conduct any investigation whatsoever into these most serious
allegations.
Id.
589. In the August 2, 1999 letter, the signators made the following demands:
1. Given Ms. Shines’ clear misconduct, lack of objectivity, and failure to complete her
review of the Cannon and Howard sustained findings, that new OPS Director, Callie
Baird, conduct an independent review on the merits of the six sustained torture
cases;
2. If Ms. Baird concurs with one or more of the sustained findings, that the
Superintendent fully and fairly review those findings on the merits, as he is required by
police procedure to do;
3. That counsel Thomas Needham be disqualified from any role in reviewing or
otherwise participating in any torture investigations;
4. That Peter Dignan and any other active officers against whom torture findings were
entered by OPS investigators be suspended pending complete review;
5. That the department and its OPS open an investigation into the allegations that Melvin
Jones was electric shocked by Jon Burge and other still active detectives and consider
in making its findings that the City has admitted that Jones was in fact tortured;
6. That the Department and its OPS reopen and complete the Shadeed Mumin
investigation;
7. That the Department and its OPS open investigations into the other numerous
documented cases of police torture, as listed in the Appendix attached hereto,
including those allegations made by men on death row;
8. That the Department commission an independent investigation into the serious
violations of departmental rules and court process by high ranking police and OPS
officials, including Thomas Needham and Gayle Shines;
9. That the Department and the OPS Director meet with representatives from the
undersigned groups and discuss these proposals and to periodically report on the
progress of these investigations;
10.That these investigations and findings be subject to public scrutiny.
Id. 115
590. In the August 2, 1999, from Citizens Alert, the signators set forth the following cases
for Director Baird’s Review:
Darrell Cannon CR#134723
Stanley Howard CR# 142017
Gregory Banks CR# 188617
David Bates CR# 188617
Lee Holmes CR# 126802
Philip Adkins CR# 142201
Thomas Craft CR# 200390
Id.
591. In the August 2, 1999, letter, the signators listed the following cases to be Opened8
by OPS:
Melvin Jones TyShaun Ross
Shadeed Mumin Derrick King
Aaron Patterson Michael Coleman
Leonard Hinton Sylvester Green
Leroy Orange Paul Mike
Alonzo Smith Walter Johnson
Leonard Hinton Roy Brown
Leroy Orange Eric Smith
Jerry Mahaffey Franklin Burchette
Reginald Mahaffey Vincent Wade
James Cody Willie Porch
Lenard Kidd Raymond Golden
Lonza Holmes Tony Thompson
Michael Tillman Timothy Thompson
Stephen Bell
Andrew Maxwell
Madison Hobley
Ronald Kitchen
Id.
592. Superintendent Hillard subsequently met with representatives from the signators of
the August 2, 1999 Citizens Alert letter.
593. Other than Hillard’s meeting with representatives from the signators of the August
2, 1999 Citizens Alert letter, no action was taken on any of the demands made in the letter. 116
594. In an e mail dated 1/10/02, Corporation Counsel Mara S. Georges wrote to her
assistant: “Sheila O’Grady would like us to explore bringing an action against Burge. Will you
please think about it and give us your thoughts?” “New documents Report that City Considered
Suing Burge, City continues Paying For Fired Commander’s Legal Defense,” NBC 5.com.,
4/29/04.
595. On January 1, 2002, Sheila O’Grady was Mayor Daley’s Chief of Staff. Id.
596. In response, Jeffrey Given, Georges’ assistant, wrote that suing Burge “would
seem to undercut our ability to defend [against the inmates’] suit by challenging the underlying
facts . . .” “City Considered Suing Burge; Officials Weighed Their Options to Fight Growing
Uproar over Torture Allegations Against the Fired Police Commander,” Chicago Tribune,
4/29/04.
597. Mindful that the torture allegations were gaining new momentum, Given and
Georges also considered mounting a public relations campaign to counter continuing negative
publicity about Burge and the City’s role in the torture scandal. Id.
598. Given and Georges recognized that the campaign would not be easy for a wide
variety of reasons, including that some of Burge’s men were still on the police force, the
department had been embarrassed by Needham’s unilateral shelving of the OPS torture
investigations despite the investigators’ sustained findings, and that the Tribune’s then recent
series on the continuing CPD practice of obtaining false confessions had again focused attention
on the issue, and Given further stated “but query how we’ll do in the court of public opinion
after a long, public, expensive and embarrassing discovery process?” NBC5.com; Chicago
Tribune.
599. Instead of suing Burge, or otherwise distancing the City from him, the City decided 117
to invest unlimited public funds in representing Burge and at least thirty-five other Area 2
detectives accused of torture and abuse in the four torture cases and to fight production and
public disclosure of additional documents that would further expose the City’s central role in the
torture scandal in civil and criminal cases and with the Special Prosecutor. Id.
600. On August 27, 2004 in his sworn testimony before the Prisoner Review Board,
former Area 2 Commander and Superintendent Leroy Martin falsely denied that he did not have
contemporaneous knowledge of the allegations of torture and abuse against Jon Burge and other
Area 2 detectives while he was Commander. Tr. of 8/27/04 Parole Revocation Hearing of Darrell
Cannon.
601. In her concurring opinion in Hinton v. Uchtman (sub. nom.)___F 3d ___ (7th Cir.
2005), Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Diane Wood found:
[T]he claim Hinton has made regarding his confession illustrates dramatically the
high price our system of criminal justice pays when police abuse runs rampant: a
cloud hangs over everything that the bad actors touched . . . [A] mountain of
evidence indicates that torture was an ordinary occurrence at the Area Two station
of the Chicago Police Department during the exact time period pertinent to
Hinton's case. Eventually, as this sorry tale came to light, the Office of
Professional Standards Investigation of the Police Department looked into the
allegations, and it issued a report that concluded that police torture under the
command of Lt. Jon Burge — the officer in charge of Hinton's case — had been a
regular part of the system for more than ten years. And, in language reminiscent
of the news reports of 2004 concerning the notorious Abu Ghraib facility in Iraq,
the report said that "[t]he type of abuse described was not limited to the usual
beating, but went into such esoteric areas as psychological techniques and
planned torture." The report detailed specific cases, such as the case of Andrew
Wilson, who was taken to Area Two on February 14, 1982. There a group led by
Burge beat Wilson, stuffed a bag over his head, handcuffed him to a radiator, and
repeatedly administered electric shocks to his ears, nose, and genitals. See People
v. Wilson, 506 N.E.2d 571 (Ill. 1987). Burge eventually lost his job with the
police, though not until 1992. See In the Matter of the Charges Filed Against Jon
Burge, No. 91-1856 (Chicago Police Board, February 11, 1993). To this day,
Burge has not been prosecuted for any of these actions, though it appears that he
at least thinks that he may still be at some risk of prosecution. See, for example, 118
"Cop brutality probe must be thorough, fair," Chi. Sun-Times, May 16, 2002
(editorial); Hal Dardick, "Burge repeatedly takes 5th; Former police commander
stays mum on torture questions," Chi. Tribune, Sept. 2, 2004 (noting allegations
that Burge or people reporting to him had tortured 108 Black and Latino suspects
between August 1972 and September 1991). . . .
Behavior like that attributed to Burge imposes a huge cost on society: it
creates distrust of the police generally, despite the fact that most police officers
would abhor such tactics, and it creates a cloud over even the valid convictions in
which the problem officer played a role. Indeed, the alleged conduct is so
extreme that, if proven, it would fall within the prohibitions established by the
United Nations Convention Against Torture ("CAT"), which defines torture as
"any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is
intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a
third person information or a confession . . .," thereby violating the fundamental
human rights principles that the United States is committed to uphold. . . .