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MITCHELL v. PEOPLE

Nos. 14-1109, 15-0816.

52 N.E.3d 669 (2016)

402 Ill. Dec. 748

2016 IL App (1st) 141109

Scott MITCHELL, Petitioner-Appellant, v. The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Respondent-Appellee. Darrell Fair, Petitioner-Appellant, v. The People of the State of Illinois, Respondent-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

Rehearing Denied May 9, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonid Feller, Vikas K. Didwania, David R. Freedman, and Vinu Joseph, all of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Chicago, for appellant Scott Mitchell.

Russell Ainsworth, Jon Loevy, and Debra Loevy-Reyes, all of The Exoneration Project, Chicago, for appellant Darrell Fair.

Anita M. Alvarez, State's Attorney, Chicago (Alan J. Spellberg, Assistant State's Attorney, of counsel), for the People.

Lisa Madigan, Attorney General, Chicago (Carolyn E. Shapiro, Solicitor General, and Brett E. Legner, Deputy Solicitor General, of counsel), for Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission.

OPINION

¶ 1 Under the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission Act (Torture Act) (775 ILCS 40/1 et seq. (West 2012)), the Illinois legislature created the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission (TIRC) "[t]o conduct inquiries into claims of torture...

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