In 2002, Cook County prosecutors undertook what then was a most unusual inquiry: the reinvestigation of a double-murder case that sent five young men to prison, even though one of them had records showing he was in a Chicago police lockup when the crime occurred.
About a year later, in March 2003, the office of then-State's Attorney Richard Devine announced that it was satisfied the convictions were sound in spite of a Tribune investigation that had uncovered new evidence suggesting that the young man, Daniel Taylor, was innocent.
Nearly a decade later, reports from that investigation — obtained by the Tribune from sources after State's Attorney Anita Alvarez's office refused to make them available to the newspaper — raise questions about how the investigation was done and whether it was evenhanded.
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