ILL: Madison Hobley - Ex-Death Row inmate due $6.5M

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ILL: Madison Hobley - Ex-Death Row inmate due $6.5M
Thu Jan 8, 2009 2:30PM
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Ex-Death Row inmate due $6.5M
January 5, 2009

Former Death Row inmate Madison Hobley, who was pardoned and set free five years ago, stands to receive $6.5 million from the City of Chicago now that a deadline for prosecutors to indict him has passed.
Hobley was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for setting a 1987 fire that killed seven people, including his wife and infant son. But Hobley, who said he was tortured by Chicago police, was pardoned by former Gov. George Ryan in his final days in office in January 2003.

Hobley then sued the city. He settled that lawsuit, but under the terms of the settlement, he initially received $1 million. An additional $6.5 million was due only if Hobley was not indicted by Jan. 3. FBI agents and federal prosecutors had reopened the case in 2007.

http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/01/hobley-lawsuit-chicago.html