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Compassionate Release

The Seventh Circuit ruled that a lower court must reconsider its denial of a former Chicago police officer’s request for compassionate release from prison based on his prostate cancer and the Covid-19 pandemic. The former officer — convicted in 2007 of conspiracies to distribute drugs, robbery, and racketeering — is serving a 40-year sentence.

/ June 7, 2021
In this April 16, 2020, photo a gloved hand points to a holding cell at the hospital ward of the Twin Towers jail in Los Angeles. Across the country first responders who've fallen ill from COVID-19, recovered have begun the harrowing experience of returning to jobs that put them back on the front lines of America's fight against the novel coronavirus. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit ruled that a lower court must reconsider its denial of a former Chicago police officer’s request for compassionate release from prison based on his prostate cancer and the Covid-19 pandemic. The former officer — convicted in 2007 of conspiracies to distribute drugs, robbery, and racketeering — is serving a 40-year sentence.

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