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Recommend Black Man Detained Pretrial for Seven Years, & Innocent: Sues Arresting Cops for Forced Confession during 2 Day Interrogation (Email)

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Was Held on $5 Million Bond. Found Not Guilty in 2013. From [HERE] A Black man spent seven years in jail before he was acquitted at trial, after police coerced him into falsely confessing to killing his 1-month-old niece, the man claims in court.

Barry J. Burrell sued Sauk Village and its police Officers Tim Holevis and R. Grossman, on Aug. 19 in Cook County Court. Burrell's month-old niece Kalia was found dead in August 2006, suffering a fractured skill and ribs and a lacerated liver, the Chicago Tribune reported at the time.

Burrell says in his lawsuit that he "was not involved in Kalia's death." "No witnesses or other family members told the Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS) or the defendants that Barry was involved in Kalia's death.

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