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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. O'Brien finds that the lower court improperly denied defendant a certificate of innocence because he pleaded guilty to murder after Chicago police officers coerced a false confession from him by beating him. Defendant, who was exonerated after serving his 25-year sentence, pleaded guilty after seeing his co-defendant sentenced to 75 years in prison at a bench trial. The law does not impose a categorical bar precluding defendants who pleaded guilty from obtaining a certificate of innocence. Reversed.
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