Tyrone Hood has been in prison for 21 years, and could be up for parole in 2030. He has always maintained his innocence. “This thing is bigger than me,” he said. “There’s a chain of corruption.'

Did Chicago Police Coerce Witnesses?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 7, 2014

Tyrone Hood is currently serving a 75-year sentence in a maximum-security prison, convicted of murder. New Yorker staff writer Nicholas Schmidle investigates the murder conviction and  looks at the possibility that Chicago police coerced witnesses into implicating Hood for a crime that he didn’t commit. Despite mounting signs that point to Hood’s innocence, and claims from the Cook County state’s attorney’s office that it is reviewing the case, Hood has not yet received a date for a new hearing. Schmidle’s article “Crime Fiction” appears in the August 4, 2014, issue of The New Yorker.

 

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