A contentious lawsuit filed by a man convicted of a 1992 double murder he says he didn’t commit is set for trial Monday in federal court.
Deon Patrick has sued the city, seven Chicago police officers and two Cook County prosecutors over his conviction for the slayings of Jeffrey Lassiter and Sharon Haugabook. He spent two decades in prison before Cook County prosecutors dismissed the murder charges against him in 2014.–
Patrick claims authorities also railroaded six of his seven co-defendants in the criminal case. They ranged in age from 15 to 22 at the time. Patrick was 20.
The lawsuit is set for trial in front of U.S. District Judge Ronald A. Guzman, who wrote in October that “the truly undisputed …