A convicted burglar and longtime heroin addict said Thursday he confessed to a 1983 murder after he was beaten and suffocated by Chicago police detectives then under the command of Cmdr. Jon Burge.
Gregory Banks, 46, who served a little more than seven years in prison until his conviction was thrown out because his confession had been coerced, erupted in anger as he recounted his arrest nearly three decades ago.
The testimony came at Burge’s trial in federal court on charges he lied to conceal the torture of Banks and other criminal suspects.
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