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A Skokie man who was acquitted of a series of 1991 motel robberies in three separate trials charges in a federal lawsuit that Chicago police concealed a crucial videotape of one robbery from state prosecutors.
Allen Locksley, 40, alleged that police knew he had been wrongly accused of robbing six motels, ordering clerks to “hit the button” of their cash registers, when they viewed a videotape of a seventh heist being committed by an armed man who barked the same order after Locksley was jailed.
The suit, which seeks $1.5 million in damages from six officers, charged that police concealed the “highly favorable” videotape from the state’s attorney’s office and refused to pursue charges against the real robber.
