CHICAGO — Two years after launching a review of convictions connected to discredited former Chicago police Detective Reynaldo Guevara, Cook County prosecutors on Monday agreed to dismiss charges in one Guevara-related case.
The decision came as a reversal for prosecutors, who earlier this month filed paperwork saying they did not believe Daniel Rodriguez could prove his claims that he was framed for a 1991 murder.
Rodriguez and his attorneys accused Guevara of beating him into confessing to the shooting; in addition, they contend that the mother of a key prosecution witness was in a sexual relationship with Guevara. That witness, Jason Rivera, was under further pressure to lie since he was an uncharged co-conspirator in a different homicide, attorneys alleged.
