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Hobley claimed detectives put a plastic typewriter cover over his head to make it impossible for him to breathe.
Jon Burge Sentenced To 4 1/2 Years In Prison: Convicted Of Lying About Police Torture AP 2011
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The indictment against Burge never said Hobley was tortured but accused Burge of lying about participating in or knowing about torture that took place under his watch.
Jon Burge Sentenced To 4 1/2 Years In Prison: Convicted Of Lying About Police Torture AP 2011
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Mary Malcolm, who has died aged 92, together with Sylvia Peters and McDonald Hobley made up the trinity of announcers who nursed us into becoming a nation of television watchers.
Mary Malcolm obituary Philip Purser 2010
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Hobley was recruited in time for the relaunch, and Peters the following year.
Mary Malcolm obituary Philip Purser 2010
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George Ryan pardoned Hobley just before the governor emptied death row – and cited the Burge allegations for doubting some convictions.
Jon Burge Sentenced To 4 1/2 Years In Prison: Convicted Of Lying About Police Torture AP 2011
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Pardoned by George Ryan in 2003, Hobley sat on death row more than a decade after he was tortured -- beaten and bagged -- into confessing to setting the East 82nd Street apartment fire on January 6, 1987 that killed his family and several neighbors.
Deborah Douglas: Burge Guilty Verdict Only the Beginning 2010
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Notarized answers former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge gave to legal questions in a wrongful conviction lawsuit filed against him in 2003 by Hobley proved the clincher that caught Burge in the lie he's told for too long.
Deborah Douglas: Burge Guilty Verdict Only the Beginning 2010
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In Hobley's case, the only thing the then-26-year-old was "guilty" of was cheating on his wife, as former Chicago Reader writer John Conroy so eloquently illustrated in a May 2000 piece examining how Hobley ended up on Death Row after his wife and toddler died in a South Side fire.
Deborah Douglas: Burge Guilty Verdict Only the Beginning 2010
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Hobley was not the only one to be spared from lethal injection.
A Leap Of Fate 2007
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But last Friday, the governor of Illinois said he believed Hobley and ordered him set free.
A Leap Of Fate 2007
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