$14.25M settlement proposed for man who spent 20 years in prison for double murder he didn't commit

Daniel Taylor can never recoup the more than 20 years he spent in prison for a double murder he couldn’t possibly have committed because he was a 17-year-old in police custody on an unrelated disorderly conduct charge at the time of the gruesome crime.

But if the City Council’s Finance Committee signs off on a $14.25 million settlement on the agenda for Thursday’s meeting, Taylor will soon be a wealthy man.

“Our client is happy for a measure of compensation. But it can’t begin to make Daniel whole for all he lost,” Taylor’s attorneys, David Owens of Loevy & Loevy and Alexa Van Brunt of the MacArthur Justice Center, said in a statement to the Sun-Times.

The settlement stems from a lawsuit filed against the city on Taylor’s behalf in 2014.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2022/5/17/23100818/daniel-taylor-settlement-wrongful-conviction-double-murder-confession-chicago-police