Horace Roberts spent two decades behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit. Today, he filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against Riverside County and the officers who allegedly framed him. Roberts was a forty-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran and father of two when officers of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department allegedly framed him… Read More
Loevy & Loevy client Brandon Smith, an independent journalist from Chicago, recently secured a major victory under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, requiring the City of Chicago to release video recordings of Chicago Police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting and killing teenager Laquan McDonald. Loevy & Loevy is proud to represent journalists and citizens in… Read More
Juan Rivera spent over 20 years in prison for the rape and murder of Holly Staker, a crime he did not commit. Evidence uncovered in his civil rights lawsuit suggests strongly that police officers planted blood evidence on a pair of Mr. Rivera’s Voit gym shoes in an effort to frame him for the murder… Read More
Beginning August 1, 2014, Loevy & Loevy will accept applications for our 2015 Summer Associate program from second-year law students and third-year law students who plan to begin clerkships following graduation. In addition, Loevy & Loevy is accepting applications from 2Ls and 1Ls who are interested in participating in our Civil Rights Legal Internship during… Read More
This week, the Honorable Paul Biebel, president judge of the Criminal Court of Cook County, granted Loevy & Loevy client Daniel Taylor a certificate of innocence. Fellow exonerees Nicole Harris and Deon Patrick also received their certificates of innocence at the same time. Duaa Eldeib and Steve Mills of the Chicago Tribune write: In the span of… Read More
In January 2012, Loevy & Loevy client Thaddeus Jimenez (TJ) was awarded $25 million by a federal jury. After a weeks-long trial led by Jon Loevy, Locke Bowman of the MacArthur Justice Center, and Stuart Chanen of Valorem Law Group, the jury found that a Chicago police detective had framed TJ as a teenager for… Read More
In getting Juan Rivera Jr. to confess to a 1992 murder and rape he didn’t commit, investigators pushed the Lake County man to the brink of “madness” in one of the most “monumentally, psychologically abusive interrogations” in Illinois’ history, Rivera’s attorneys said Tuesday. “They just decided they were going to solve this crime, and they… Read More
Judge Leinenweber of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois recently ruled on motions to dismiss in Juan Rivera’s civil rights case, allowing nearly every claim to proceed. Dan Hinkel has the story for the Chicago Tribune here.
Steve Mills expertly tells the story of Daniel Taylor’s first steps as a free man in the Chicago Tribune. Mills writes: The prison moments never seem far away. When his brother calls from another room, he hesitates before stepping out of his bedroom, as if he needs permission to leave. In a crowd, his eyes dart back and… Read More
In December of 2011 Jacques Rivera was released from prison after spending 21 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit. Two years later, Jacques is talking to WBEZ’s Alison Flowers about his life after freedom. There are small luxuries in Jacques’s new life, such as the French Vanilla coffee he drinks out of a red Disney… Read More
