Leroy Orange

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Charge:	Murder
Sentence:	Death
Years Imprisoned:	19
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Year Convicted:	1984
Year Cleared:	2003
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Illinois
County or Region of Crime:	Cook
City of Crime:	Chicago
Result:	Pardoned
Summary of Case:	"Leroy Orange was wrongly convicted in 1984 of murder for taking part in the stabbing of his former girlfriend, her 10-year-old son and two others. Leroy Orange confessed, but he recanted, claiming that the Chicago police tortured him into a false confession. Orange claimed the police suffocated him by placing a plastic bag over his head, "electro-shocked" him, and squeezed his scrotum. The police officers denied torturing Orange, and he was convicted and sentenced to death. When evidence was discovered that Orange's claim of torture was credible because the Chicago PD tortured many suspects, Leroy Orange was pardoned by IL Gov. George Ryan on Jan. 10, 2003, and released after 19 years imprisonment, with 17 years on Illinois' death row. Filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Chicago and Cook County. Chicago settled the lawsuit in 2008 for $5,500,000, and on March 2, 2010 the Cook County Board of Supervisors agreed to settle the case for $525,000 to be paid in 5 installments of $110,000. The last installment is to be paid in January 2014."
Conviction Caused By:	"Tortured into a false confession by police who suffocated him by placing a plastic bag over his head, "electro-shocked" him, and squeezed his scrotum."
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Compensation Awarded:	"$6,025,000 total. $5.5 million (City of Chicago in 2008) and $525,000 (Cook County in March 2010)"
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Black
Information Source 1:	"Illinois Governor George Ryan Pardoned Four Innocent Men Condemned to Death ON January 10, 2003, and the Next Day He Cleared Illinois' Death Row, Hans Sherrer, Justice Denied magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 9, pg. 25-30."
Information Location 1:	http://www.justicedenied.org/governorryan.htm
Information Source 2:	"County pays $525,000 to former Death Row inmate in wrongful prosecution case, By Hal Dardick (poster), Chicago Tribune, March 2, 2010"
Information Location 2:	http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2010/03/county-pays-525000-to-former-death-row-inmate-in-wrongful-prosecution-case.html
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Leroy Orange

Charge:

Murder

Sentence:

Death

Years Imprisoned:

19

Year Crime:

Year Convicted:

1984

Year Cleared:

2003

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Illinois

County or Region of Crime:

Cook

City of Crime:

Chicago

Result:

Pardoned

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

"Tortured into a false confession by police who suffocated him by placing a plastic bag over his head, "electro-shocked" him, and squeezed his scrotum."

Innocence Proved By:

Defendant Aided By:

Compensation Awarded:

"$6,025,000 total. $5.5 million (City of Chicago in 2008) and $525,000 (Cook County in March 2010)"

Was Perpetrator Identified?

Age When Imprisoned:

Age When Released:

Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Black

Information Source 1:

"Illinois Governor George Ryan Pardoned Four Innocent Men Condemned to Death ON January 10, 2003, and the Next Day He Cleared Illinois' Death Row, Hans Sherrer, Justice Denied magazine, Vol. 2, Issue 9, pg. 25-30."

Information Location 1:

http://www.justicedenied.org/governorryan.htm

Information Source 2:

"County pays $525,000 to former Death Row inmate in wrongful prosecution case, By Hal Dardick (poster), Chicago Tribune, March 2, 2010"

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http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/clout_st/2010/03/county-pays-525000-to-former-death-row-inmate-in-wrongful-prosecution-case.html

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