Chicago – Two Uptown men get a new start after their lawyers, with the help of their own video images of the city, proven that they were not responsible for robbing a man in Uptown last summer.
Omareon Coleman and Samuel Gaines, both 19 at that time, were never arrested before police officers in Chicago stopped them for interrogation, and the stunned victim identified them as the robbers.
Incredibly, said their lawyer, two 16-year-old boys who also accused the robbery were the actual robbers, but their charges were rejected within two weeks of the incident.
Around 9 p.m. on July 17, the 60-year-old victim marked a Chicago police car to report that he had just jumped, beaten and robbed of $ 25 in an alley behind the 4400 block of North Malden, said a CPD report.
Prosecutors said the group kicked the man in the head and the body and hit his money before he applied. The youngsters also robbed the man under shot, according to CPD. EMS transported him to the advocation of Illinois Masonic Medical Center for research because of his complaints about head and back pain.
The police found several people in the alley and gaines, Coleman and the young people arrested after the victim identified them as the attackers.
Shortly before he fingered Coleman and Gaines, the intoxicated victim accused someone else wrongly but quickly back, According to lawyers At Winston & Strawn, the law firm that assumed the case by his racial Justice & Equity initiative.
The Chicago police a press release Announcement of charges against Gaines, Coleman and the young people two days after they were arrested.
But Defense researchers obtained surveillance images of cameras operated by the Chicago Police Department and the Chicago Housing Authority as well as private surveillance video that was clearly attacked by drug dealers during a narcotics transaction, according to the company, according to the statement of the statement.
The defense team has also established that one of the men they represented, Instacart deliveries delivered to a scooter when the police stopped him for interrogation. Location data from Instacart proved that he was at home at the time of the robbery.
“Despite an alibi for where he was when the crime took place, our client was arrested and charged,” said the law firm in a written statement.
Prosecutors left the indictment against Coleman and Gaines fall after revising the evidence presented by their lawyers.
The Chicago police did not respond to an investigation that sought input for this story.
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