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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Arson exoneration

CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit upheld a ruling in favor of a county and an investigator in its sheriff’s office in a civil rights suit brought by a woman exonerated of arson charges relating to her own house burning down.

Read the ruling here .

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