Retired Chicago Detective, Accused Of Multiple Frame-Ups, Sued Again

WBEZ reports:

Geraldo Iglesias was wrongfully convicted in 1993 for the murder of Monica Roman and spent 16 years in prison. When Iglesias was locked up he was in his early twenties, working in a gang prevention program and trying to get his GED. He said the biggest cost to being behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit was the toll it took on his relationship with his son, who was just a year old when Inglesias went to prison.

Iglesias is now suing Reynaldo Guevara, the retired Chicago Police detective who Iglesias says framed him. Iglesias is one of more than a dozen men who were exonerated after being convicted based on investigations conducted by Guevara. The lawsuit says Inglesias’ “wrongful conviction was just part of a now well-known pattern of illegal activity.”

“He is walking around like nothing happened. I lost my life,” said Inglesias.

According to lawyers for Iglesias, there was no physical evidence connecting him to the murder and the jailhouse informant who implicated him “has since testified that his statements were false and that Defendant Guevara and his colleagues beat him, threatened him, and fed him facts to ensure that he told their story.”

One very sad article.