Taxpayers face $9.5M settlement tied to alleged coerced confession by onetime CPD detective

The settlement would go to Carl Reed, a mentally disabled man who spent nearly 19 years in prison for the 2001 fatal stabbing of a North Side neighbor Reed was allegedly coerced by CPD detective Richard Zuley and now-deceased Det. Timothy Thompson into confessing to a murder he claimed he did not commit.

From: 
Chicago Sun-Times

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