Attorneys trying to free a man who claims Chicago Police
tortured him into giving a false murder confession showed a parole
board Friday a tape of former Area 2 Cmdr. Jon Burge repeatedly
refusing to answer questions on alleged torture in the department. The
Illinois Prisoner Review Board is scheduled to decide by Wednesday
whether to free inmate Darrell Cannon, who claims officers under Burge
tortured him. Cannon's attorneys, Locke E. Bowman and Flint Taylor,
argued that Burge's deposition is evidence he and others have something
to hide. The three-member board heard Burge, like at least four other
current and former police officers who testified before him, refuse to
answer questions. Unlike in a criminal case, the review board can hold
it against the former officers for taking the Fifth while deciding if
Cannon should be freed. Cannon, 53, alleges that in 1983, officers
drove him to a remote location, shoved a gun in his mouth and played
Russian roulette to get him to confess to a murder. He also testified
that officers put cattle prods on his genitals and shocked him.[more ]
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