More convictions linked to former Chicago Police Department Sgt. Ronald Watts were vacated with Cook County State's Atty. Kim Foxx's support.
CHICAGO -- A judge on Friday threw out 44 more convictions tied to a notorious former Chicago police sergeant who regularly framed people for drug crimes they didn't commit, exonerations that victim advocates said would be among the last from one of the most disgraceful chapters in the department's history.
The latest dismissals bring to more than 170 Black defendants who have seen their drug convictions tied to Watts and his tactical unit dismissed in recent years. The announcement is the latest chapter in a story of corruption that led courts, starting in 2016, to toss out drug convictions of victims who were framed by Watts and his unit after they refused to pay him money, angered him in some way, or were targeted for no apparent reason.
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