The city's legal department recommended to city council to settle the lawsuits rather than risk going to trial.
The city of Chicago agreed to pay $20.5 million to two of roughly a dozen men whose murder convictions were overturned after they were allegedly framed by the same police detective.
City Council voted to settle to lawsuits Jose Montanez and Armando Serrano to circumvent a potentially larger payment in the event of a trial. In 2009, a former prison inmate who accused the same detective of framing him received a $21 million win in court.Chicago's legal department cannot comment on pending litigation, so there is no information on what might happen to lawsuits pending that involved the detective, Reynaldo Guevara.
"I hope they settle these before running up millions of dollars in legal fees," he said."The city needs to resolve these cases or they will face trial after trial."Serrano and Montanez spent 23 years in prison before they were released in 2016. A key witness in their case admitted that he'd lied about hearing them confess because Guevara had threatened to beat him if he didn't.
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