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<font face="Verdana" size=4 color="#FF0000"><b>Hearing for Torture Victim
-Keith Walker:<br>
</font><font face="Verdana" size=4>Say No to Torture - Pack the
Courtroom!<br>
</font><font face="Verdana" size=4 color="#FF0000">Monday</b>, <b>June
15, 2009 at 9:00a.m<br>
</font><font face="Verdana" size=4>Cook County Courthouse<br>
(26th & California)<br>
Hearing at 9:30 in Judge Claps’ Court Room 306<br><br>
</font><font face="Verdana" size=2><u>Partial Victory</b>?
-</u></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=2> After several denied
appeals, Keith Walker will finally have his day in court to determine
whether he voluntarily confessed to charges that have kept him in prison
since 1994, or if, in fact he was tortured by <b>Jon Burge a nd
cohorts</b>. <br><br>
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<b><u>Background </b>-</u> In 1991, Walker was arrested outside a South
Side store, taken to a police station, and beaten and tortured by Chicago
Police officers with the same brutal tactics the community now knows were
routinely used by members of disgraced Chicago police commander Jon
Burge’s midnight crew, which for two decades carried out electro-shock,
suffocation, severe beatings and mock executions on more than 100
African-American me n. <br><br>
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Walker eventually managed to escape, but was arrested again a few weeks
later. After threats that he’d never see his family again if he didn’t
cooperate and fearing more torture , Keith signed a false statement
implicating him in a murder and attempted armed robbery. Keith has
since spent <b>15 terrible years in prison, </b>sentenced to ‘life’
behind bars, despite the fact that no physical evidence tied him to the
crimes. He has maintained his innocence ever since and sought appeals
several times based on the tortured confession. <br><br>
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</font><font face="Verdana" size=2><b><u>Justice Denied </b>-</u>
Ironically the first Judge to deny Walker’s Post Conviction was a former
prosecutor who took his coerced statement that was used to wrongfully
convict him. Despite repeated dismissals and attempts to suppress the
truth about the electric shock and other tactics used against Walker in
1991, he has continued to seek freedom and justice. It seemed hopeless,
but now that the entire world knows the truth about police torture in
Chicago, the Illinois Appellate Court</font> has granted Keith an
opportunity for a hearing on whether his statement was voluntary.
<b>Judge Claps will decide whether Walker will actually have a hearing on
the torture issue on Monday June 15, 2009.<br><br>
<u>Your Help Is Needed!</b> -</u><i> This is only a start</i>. <i>We will
only see justice for Keith Walker and all the other African-Americans who
were tortured when they go free, or win new trials</i>.
<font face="Verdana" size=3><b><u>Come pack the courtroom at 9:00am on
Monday June 15th to show the judges, prosecutors and numerous police
lawyers that we will not rest until Keith Walker and his fellow torture
victims are free!<br><br>
</u></b></font><font face="Verdana" size=2>Sponsored by Black People
Against Police Torture and The National Conference of Black Lawyers
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For more information, call the Law Office of Atty Standish E. Willis at
312-554-0005 <br><br>
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