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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 21/09/2026

Late on Friday, we filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of Washington State resident Jordan Coleman, who was wrongly convicted of sexual abuse of a minor and spent over 3 years in jail before being exonerated. Read our press release here: www.loevy.com/press-releas...

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PRESS RELEASE: Man Wrongly Convicted of Sexual Abuse Files Federal Lawsuit Against Lewis County, Following Suit Against the State of Washington

Jordan D. Coleman filed a federal lawsuit against Lewis County, WA over his wrongful conviction for sexual assault of a minor.

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 09/09/2026

Loevy is suing the FBI on behalf of journalist Jonathan Walczak, who is attempted to compel the release of never-before-seen photos from 9/11, including some that may be from inside the towers. [Gift article]

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He’s Seen Images of 9/11 From Just About Every Angle. Except This One. (Gift Article)

The 9/11 completist community wants to know and see everything. The Holy Grail? Pictures from inside the twin towers.

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 28/08/2026

Congratulations to our clients, Block Club Chicago, for this most deserving of wins. They not only provided brilliant, comprehensive news coverage throughout Operation Midway Blitz, but they also took a leadership role in the fight to defend the First Amendment itself against attack.

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Block Club Wins National First Amendment Award For Midway Blitz Coverage, Lawsuits

The Eugene S. Pulliam First Amendment Award from the Society of Professional Journalists recognized our "extraordinary courage and persistence" in covering the federal immigration crackdown in Chicago...

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 24/07/2026

Extraordinary new film SAWYER AVENUE, SUNDAY AFTERNOON, from Academy Award nominated director Bill Morrison, tells the story of the Albany Park incident of Operation Midway Blitz, using bodycam footage forced public through our lawsuit against Kristi Noem and DHS.

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Inside an Immigration Arrest That Sparked a Neighborhood Protest | The New Yorker

YouTube video by The New Yorker

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 07/07/2026

Three Chicago protesters who were assaulted by federal troops outside the Broadview ICE facility last fall have filed claims under the Federal Torts Claims Act (FTCA). These filings are a necessary first step towards filing federal lawsuits against the U.S. government. Read the press release here:

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PRESS RELEASE: Chicago Protesters File Injury Claims Against DHS for Assaults Under Midway Blitz

FTCA claims are a precursor to federal lawsuits

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Field Foundation @fieldfoundation.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

REGISTER NOW for "America @ 250: A Journalism Reckoning!" Making of a Nation. Unmaking of a Narrative. Who Gets to Tell the Story? 📅 JULY 16 🕕 6–9pm 📍 Impact House, 200 W Madison St., Chicago forms.cloud.microsoft/r/EDCzq639gB We continue unveiling this powerful speaker line-up!

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 03/06/2026

ICE locked up a transgender woman with men at GEO Group run camp. She reported that she was sexually assaulted. She was hospitalized. She spoke to a local sheriff. Then DHS deported her. (content note for stories and photos of anti-trans violence)

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She reported a sexual assault at North Lake. ICE deported her before the investigation was over.

A former detainee says she was repeatedly sexually assaulted at the North Lake Processing Center and that her attempts to alert administrators initially went unheeded.

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 27/05/2026

When he was 17, Jackson Leggett of Kendall County made a joke in class, and his teacher and principal had him thrown in juvie and charged with a felony. Now he's suing them, and the district, for malicious prosecution. Read about the case here: www.loevy.com/press-releas...

A smiling young man, White, clean shaven, with short dark blonde hair, wearing a plaid button-up shirt, standing outside.

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 27/05/2026

An infuriating, essential read.

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

JUST IN: Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros says he is implementing "sweeping reforms to internal grand jury practices" in the wake of the "Broadview Six" revelations:

United States Attorney Andrew S. Boutros Announces Sweeping Reforms to Internal Grand Jury Practices and Disclosures; Remediation Plan Includes Most Substantial and Significant Changes in Decades

CHICAGO — Andrew S. Boutros, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, today announced a series of sweeping internal reforms to the Office’s grand jury practices and disclosures that took effect yesterday. The remediation plan, which represents the most substantial and significant internal changes to the Office’s grand jury procedures in decades, will streamline the Office’s grand jury processes and disclosures. The new process moving forward will be more transparent, effective, and impactful while greatly reducing the likelihood of mistakes and errors.
The important reforms, which took effect yesterday for all grand jury presentations in the Northern District of Illinois, establish clear and unequivocal expectations and rules for federal prosecutors related to grand jury disclosures and the timing of those disclosures. Among the many changes in the remediation plan are increased and expanded education about grand jury presentations, including extensive, deep-dive training from national experts outside the Office. U.S. Attorney Boutros and the Department of Justice have also taken swift action related to internal personnel matters.
“One of the benefits of being the first Chicago U.S. Attorney to have previously been Chair of White Collar in private practice is that I have represented and advised as my own personal clients some of the largest public and other companies and their audit committees, boards, C-suite executives, and others in highly sensitive and bet-the-company government and internal

investigations,” said U.S. Attorney Boutros. “Everybody who has handled high-stakes corporate cases knows that in addition to the importance of thorough, honest, and objective investigations, there must also be remediation, reforms, and process improvements to allow organizations to accept responsibility and make sure that the same mistakes don’t happen again. What I have formulated and thereafter implemented on Tuesday of this week are among the most sweeping reforms to address root-cause issues in the Northern District of Illinois’s federal prosecutorial practices and procedures, especially as they relate to the grand jury and grand jury disclosures. They also make the Chicago U.S. Attorney’s Office among, if not the leading district in the country on grand jury disclosures. These remediations should also be deeply curative and put to rest once and for all the divergent practices that have existed across the Office for decades, including from one Assistant U.S. Attorney to another as well as from one generation to the next. That’s because these are clear, bright line rules that everyone must abide by, which should streamline and simplify the decision-making and disclosure process, as opposed to bedevil it. It also should all but eliminate points of contention between federal prosecutor and defense counsel as it relates to these grand jury issues.”
After learning of certain conduct by the government in the grand jury during a recent case, the U.S. Attorney’s Office immediately moved to dismiss the indictment in that case and proactively initiated an immediate review of other grand jury presentations that could have been impacted in a similar fashion. The inquiry has included both a root cause analysis into the Office’s practices and procedures generally, as well as an exam of any cases by the AUSAs who went into the grand jury in that case that could have been impacted by similar conduct. The Office’s review is far along but remains ongoing. In addition,…

The reforms announced today, many of which are being implemented for the first time anywhere in the country, will transform and modernize the Office’s procedures, while continuing to adhere to the longstanding tradition that a prosecutor serves as “one of the most beneficent forces in our society,” as then-Attorney General (and later Supreme Court Justice) Robert H. Jackson shared in his seminal 1940 address, “The Federal Prosecutor.” Attorney General Jackson remarked that the prosecutor’s “powers have been granted to our law-enforcement agencies because it seems necessary that such a power to prosecute be lodged somewhere. This authority has been granted by people who really wanted the right thing done—wanted crime eliminated—but also wanted the best in our American traditions preserved.”
In announcing his reforms to the Office, U.S. Attorney Boutros thanked the Office’s Assistant U.S. Attorneys for all that they do for the people of the Northern District of Illinois: “Thank you for your hard work. Thank you for being on the front lines keeping our communities safe, making sure our victims are heard, protecting the public fisc, and working to hold accountable those defendants who commit serious crimes, all while doing so in the very best traditions of the Office and the Department. After all, the motto of the Department is ‘Qui Pro Domina Justitia Sequitur,’ meaning, ‘Who prosecutes on behalf of Justice.’”
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This statement is not intended to, does not, and may not be relied upon to create any rights, substantive or procedural, that are enforceable at law by any party, in any criminal, civil, or administrative matter. This statement does not purport to offer legal advice nor is it intended to substitute for the advice of legal counsel. It does not in any way limit the enforcement intentions or litigating positions of the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, or any other U.S. Attorney’s Office or compon…

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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

NEW: The transcript of today's sealed hearing in the "Broadview Six" case IS IN. Read it here: cst.brightspotcdn.com/95/75/a403b7...

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 20/05/2026

Tomorrow, a judge will rule on whether to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate crimes committed by federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz. Here, U.S. Representative Delia Ramirez—one of the petitioners—eloquently explains why it is needed.

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Ramirez: "The call for accountability must not go unanswered. We need an independent prosecutor."

Tomorrow, a judge will rule whether to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate crimes by federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz.

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 15/05/2026

Today, we submitted what we expect to be our final argument to the court on why the people of Cook County need and deserve an independent special prosecutor to investigate and prosecute crimes committed by federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz. A ruling is expected Thursday.

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MEDIA ADVISORY: New Filing in Special Prosecutor Fight; Ruling Expected Thursday

Judge will decide May 21 whether to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate DHS crimes

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 14/05/2026

“What we are seeing is an illegal and unethical exploitation of talent on a massive scale, and one of the largest violations of biometric privacy ever committed,” says attorney Ross Kimbarovsky of Loevy + Loevy.

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 14/05/2026

The plaintiffs—nationally recognized journalists, podcasters, audio storytellers, and voice artists from Illinois—say their unique voiceprints are being used to train AI that will compete with or even replace them in the marketplace, in violation of Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act.

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 14/05/2026

This week, Loevy filed lawsuits against nine companies—including Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, & Microsoft—alleging they have built a multi-billion-dollar voice AI industry on the stolen voiceprints of real people. Read the full press release below: www.loevy.com/illinois-voc...

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Illinois Journalists, Actors, and Vocal Artists File Class-Action Lawsuits Against Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Other Companies for Stealing Their Voices

A group of prominent Illinois voice artists and journalists are suing Big Tech companies over the theft of their voices to train AI.

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 06/05/2026

"Fast and USA Today also provide a road map all journalists can use to apply the letter and spirit of the Freedom of Information Act, and to achieve results for those harmed by a government agency more interested in hiding behind secrecy than in doing its job."

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 06/05/2026

Congratulations to our clients at @usatoday.com for winning a FOI Award from Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. (IRE). Our FOIA team was proud to help secure the information that contributed to this important reporting (by Austin Fast, Doug Caruso, and Steve Suo) on preventable prison deaths.

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Announcing the 2025 IRE Awards

Announcing the 2025 IRE Awards (May 5, 2026) – Congratulations to winners and finalists in the 2025 IRE Awards. The annual contest showcases exemplary work by members of Investigative Reporters and Ed...

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 04/05/2026

Congratulations to this team, on a much-deserved prize for their coverage of Operation Midway Blitz. So many great local journalists put it all on the line during that months-long federal travesty.

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Chicago Tribune wins Pulitzer Prize for local reporting

The Chicago Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize on Monday for its coverage of Operation Midway Blitz, the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement mission in the Chicago area last fall.

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 30/04/2026

Jeffrey Clark, framed for a 1992 murder by the Meade County (KY) Sheriff's Dept. and Coroner's Office, spent 22.5 years in prison before being exonerated in 2018. Yesterday, a jury awarded him $24.35 million in damages. "I finally feel like I am able to wake up from a 34-year nightmare," he says.

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Jury Awards $24.35 Million to Jeffrey Clark, Framed by Meade County (Ky) Sheriff’s Dept. for 1992 Murder

Loevy & Loevy has a long history of big wins in civil rights, wrongful conviction, and police brutality cases. View multi-million verdicts.

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 29/04/2026

There will be a press conference with Mr. Clark and his attorneys from Loevy + Loevy at 6:30 ET today in Louisville, at 471 West Main Street, Suite 200. All members of the media are encouraged to attend.

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 29/04/2026

BREAKING NEWS: A Louisville, KY jury has awarded $24.35 million to Jeffrey Clark, who alleged in his lawsuit that he was framed for a 1992 murder by the Meade County Sheriff, one of his deputies, and the coroner. Mr. Clark spent 22.5 years in prison before being exonerated.

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 24/04/2026

Today, Loevy attorneys Meg Gould and Locke Bowman did a brilliant job of presenting our case to Judge Reddick about why she should appoint a special prosecutor to investigate alleged crimes committed by federal agents during Operation Midway Blitz. You can read about the hearing here:

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Judge Set to Rule Next Month on Request for Special Prosecutor to Investigate ICE Crimes in Chicago

Cook County Chief Judge Erica Reddick on Friday heard arguments from petitioners who claim a special prosecutor must be appointed to investigate crimes committed during “Operation Midway Blitz."

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Bloomberg Law @bloomberglaw.com · 24/04/2026

Attorneys representing Chicago residents frustrated by the local top cop’s response to immigration officers’ violence went to state court Friday demanding a special prosecutor be appointed to prosecute federal law enforcement personnel.

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Chicagoans Urge Appointment of Prosecutor to Charge ICE Officers

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WTTW - Chicago PBS @wttw.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Cook County Chief Judge Erica Reddick on Friday heard arguments from petitioners who claim a special prosecutor must be appointed to investigate crimes committed during “Operation Midway Blitz” after O’Neill Burke’s office has failed to act. to.wttw.com/4e80yki

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Judge Set to Rule Next Month on Request for Special Prosecutor to Investigate ICE Crimes in Chicago

Cook County Chief Judge Erica Reddick on Friday heard arguments from petitioners who claim a special prosecutor must be appointed to investigate crimes committed during “Operation Midway Blitz."

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 22/04/2026

“Time and time again, the City of Chicago has not only sanctioned the brutality of cops like this, but also encouraged that brutality, excused it, and helped cover it up," says attorney David B. Owens. "This city’s entire approach to law enforcement killed Roberto, and that’s what needs to change.”

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 22/04/2026

Roberto's mother and his girlfriend—who was in the car, and thrown to the ground beside her dying boyfriend—are suing the officers and the City of Chicago.

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 22/04/2026

Salazar's claims that Roberto attacked him were disproven by bodycam footage, which showed that Roberto was no threat to either officer. Nor did he try to drive away, as the car only moved after Roberto was shot.

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 22/04/2026

Police were responding to a 911 call about two Black men walking away from an SUV. Roberto, a light-skinned Latino man, was stopped in a car nearby with his girlfriend and another friend. Officer Jose Salazar tried to pull Roberto from the car, and 10 seconds later shot him in the back of the head.

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 22/04/2026

Today, we filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the family and loved ones of Roberto Calvario, Jr., who was shot and killed by Chicago P.D. in December. Today would have been Roberto's 21st birthday. Read the press release about the case here: www.loevy.com/family-of-ro...

A tight close-up of Roberto Calvario Jr., a young Latino man with black hair, nuzzling a grey and white dog he holds in his arms.

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Government Accountability Project @govacctproj.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

ICYMI: The family of an 8-year-old girl who died in CBP custody has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The suit cites our whistleblower disclosures that warned about shortcomings that preceded this preventable death but were silenced. Read more now ⬇️ whistleblower.org/press-releas...

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Letter Sent to Congress Regarding CBP Medical Services and Whistleblower Retaliation

Today, Government Accountability Project sent a letter to Congress calling for oversight of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) medical services and for an investigation into serious whistleblo...

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

FULL STORY: The significant increase in the number of times Chicago police officers have used force against members of the public since 2022 merits a “full-scale review,” Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office told a federal judge. @wttw.bsky.social

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CPD’s Increasing Use of Force Requires a ‘Full-Scale Review’: Illinois Attorney General

Between 2023, when Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling took office, and 2025, the number of times police officers used force against a member of the public increased approxim...

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 22/04/2026

Denver can't avoid accountability for police misconduct during George Floyd protests, appellate court rules. “Our clients bravely stood up in the streets against police brutality in 2020, and they’ve been doing it ever since in the courts," says Loevy attorney Elizabeth Wang.

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PRESS RELEASE: Appellate Court Upholds $14.75 Million Verdict for Denver Protesters Subjected to Excessive Police Force During 2020 Protests

Court of Appeals unanimously affirms trial jury’s 2022 verdict, agreeing that “Denver inadequately trained its officers” DENVER — Just over four years ago, a federal jury found that, during the 2020 G...

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 21/04/2026

We have a hearing on Friday on our petition for a special prosecutor to go after DHS crimes during "Operation Midway Blitz." This article does a great job of explaining why one is needed if Chicagoans want the federal government held to any kind of accountability.

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O'Neill Burke wouldn't denounce Trump because she wanted to 'maintain' relationship with feds, emails show

The emails were referenced in a new court filing by a coalition seeking a special prosecutor to investigate Operation Midway Blitz. The coalition argued that Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neil...

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

NEW: Mayor Brandon Johnson nominated Anjanette Young, a social worker who was handcuffed while naked during a botched 2019 Chicago Police Department raid, on Thursday to serve on the city’s police oversight board. @wttw.bsky.social

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Brandon Johnson Picks Anjanette Young for CPD Oversight Board

Mayor Brandon Johnson nominated Anjanette Young, a social worker who was handcuffed while naked during a botched 2019 Chicago Police Department raid, on Thursday to serve on the city’s police oversigh...

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 06/04/2026

“In the first trial, the court failed to give proper weight to the racial realities of not just this case, but the world in which we live,” says attorney Scott Rauscher. “We’re pleased the Appellate Court has given us another opportunity to seek justice for Mr. Augustus through a new trial.” 5/5

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Loevy & Loevy @loevy.com · 06/04/2026

The judge in that earlier trial had also thrown out several charges (including civil conspiracy), and all the police defendants except Halley himself. The Appellate Court's ruling reinstates those conspiracy charges and reinstates the suit against three additional CPD officers. 4/5

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