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Futterman and Conyers on their Opposition to Amendments to The Pretrial Fairness Act
Chicago Reader
Craig Futterman, Exoneration Project Sign Open Letter to Mayor Lightfoot Demanding Funding for a Torture Justice Memorial
Chicago Torture Justice Memorials
Policing
Community Representatives From Chicago’s Use of Force Community Working Group Release Public Report
Community Renewal Society
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Chicago’s Consent Decree, Negotiated by the Civil Rights and Police Accountability Clinic, Could be Blueprint for Other Cities According to Op-ed
The Atlantic
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New Consent Decree Says CPD Must Allow Those Arrested Access to a Phone Within 3 Hours
WTTW
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Judge Finalizes Consent Decree to Improve CPD Detainees’ Legal Access After Civil Rights and Police Accountability Clinic Lawsuit is Settled
Chicago Sun Times
People gather at a press conference after the Consent Decree was signed.
Civil Rights and Police Accountability Clinic Wins Consent Decree to End Chicago Police Practice of Incommunicado Detention
Law School Communications
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Finding A Way Forward
Clinic Student Describes Working on Historic $14 Million Wrongful Conviction Settlement with Client Whose Life Parallels His Own
By James Jones, ’22
Herschella Conyers and Craig Futterman Respond to Mayor Lightfoot’s Comments on Presumption of Innocence
Chicago Tribune
Law School Clinics: Civil Rights and Police Accountability Clinic
Clinic Information Session for 1Ls
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