José Tinajero was arrested in 1999 and testified under duress by detective Reynaldo Guevara. His sentence and that of Thomas Kelly, another man who was accused of the same crime, were overturned this week by a Chicago judge.
So far, 40 people convicted by that police investigation have been released. At least 32 of the 40 people released have Latin roots, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. The city of Chicago faces more than a dozen lawsuits related to cases in which he led the investigations or collaborated in the investigations.