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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Chang partially grants multiple Chicago-area law enforcement officials’ motion for summary judgment on a wrongfully convicted man’s civil rights case. The man spent over 16 years in jail for a murder he didn’t commit after Chicago police fabricated evidence against him. After his conviction was finally vacated the man brought numerous counts not just against the police who worked to put him in jail, but against Chicago, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, the Cook County Sheriff Department and all others who allowed the police to get away with the framing. In the interests of encouraging the parties to settle, the court fully dismisses all claims against several individual police, while allowing other claims for conspiracy, fabrication, malicious prosecution, infliction of emotional distress and indemnification to stand against the city, county and several individual police and higher-ranking law enforcement officials.