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The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office has signaled that it plans to agree with the effort to overturn more than 50 convictions against dozens of people with cases connected to disgraced Chicago Police Sgt. Ronald Watts, setting up what may become the largest mass exoneration in Cook County history, an attorney for those individuals said Friday.

Most lawyers would consider it a monumental victory if they walked out of court with five clients exonerated of their crimes. Problem is, the case before Judge Erica Reddick had the names of 88 individuals seeking to have their cases thrown out.

NBC 5 investigates the code of silence scandal that has plagued the Chicago Police Department as prosecutors on Thursday dropped the convictions of five more men tied to corrupt ex-Sgt. Ronald Watts. NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers reports.

In a case which has already become the largest scandal in Chicago Police Department history, attorneys are asking why it is taking so long for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office to provide relief for dozens of individuals who say they were framed by corrupt officers. NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers has the story.

In a case which has already become the largest scandal in Chicago Police Department history, attorneys are asking why it is taking so long for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office to provide relief for dozens of individuals who say they were framed by corrupt officers who worked for years at the former Ida B. Wells housing project on Chicago’s...

After Ronald Watts was accused, along with officers under his command, of framing hundreds of individuals, nearly 90 people are asking to have their convictions thrown out. Some are asking why the wheels are moving so slowly. NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers reports.

Two years after Chicago’s police investigating agency called for three Chicago police officers to be relieved of their police powers, all three remain on the force, according to the city’s payroll database.

On Monday, more than three years after taking the case, the Civilian Office of Police Accountability issued its first recommendations in the case to Chicago Police Department Supt. David Brown.

On Monday, Chicago’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability turned over its investigation of Ronald Watts to Police Superintendent David Brown. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers reports.

Amid a renewed focus on police accountability and allegations of systemic victimization of African American citizens, attorneys and recently exonerated individuals in Cook County are asking why it takes so long to investigate allegations of police corruption. NBC 5 Investigates’ Phil Rogers reports