I cannot understand why you would publish the self-aggrandizing rationalizations issued by Cook County State’s Atty. Richard Devine on such a regular basis.
In his most recent press release (“Cook prosecutors have been candid about errors,” Voice of the people, Dec. 17), he congratulates himself and his assistants for their conduct in the Corethian Bell matter, and for how once they received exculpatory DNA evidence, they took steps to secure his release after about 17 months.
What he neglects to mention is that the confession on which they were relying up to that point was elicited after 50 hours in custody and the attendant deprivations that some members of the Chicago police use to further weaken their targeted “suspects.” The end result of their coerced confession: The truly guilty party, as indicated by DNA evidence, was allowed to rape and kill another woman several months later, while Bell sat in Cook County Jail.
