SAMPLE RECORD MAKING CASES:
Regalado v. City of Chicago
Blake Horwitz has had many successes in the field of Police Misconduct, including a $28,000,000.00 (Twenty Eight Million Dollar) verdict. It has been proclaimed to be the highest police misconduct verdict in the Midwest!

Medina v. City of Chicago
Largest settlement 1,800,000 (One Million Eight Hundred Thousand Dollar) in Illinois for police officers who placed highly intoxicated one handed man into back of police squadrol for two hours, causing death.

Caithamer v. Village of Maywood
$750,000 settlement for man beaten in jail by inmate.

Brown v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
$100,000.00 settlement for man who committed suicide in Jail.

Oviedo v. City of Joliet, et al
$100,000.00 jury verdict for Hispanic man who was falsely arrested and criminally prosecuted for felony and misdemeanor crimes.

Johnson v. Village of Willowbrook
Largest police misconduct verdict for pat-down search in Illinois: $112,000.00 for woman who was searched (over the clothes) by two Caucasian police officers because she had expired license plates.

For more information, please call The Law Offices of Horwitz, Richardson & Baker LLC at: 312-676-2100

WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS
Many people have been charged with a crime, wrongfully. If police officers had no legal basis for charging you with a crime and you were found guilty, then you have been wrongfully convicted. At the Law Offices of Blake Horwitz, we prosecute police officers who have wrongfully convicted innocent people.

INTERESTING CASES FROM HRB
12 lawsuits filed against the City of Blue Island in one day.
The Law offices of Blake Horwitz filed 12 lawsuits against the city of Blue Island, alleging excessive force and false arrest. This approach contributed to the cause of a dramatic reduction in police misconduct in the community.

12 Plaintiffs filed class action lawsuit against the Village of Stone Park
Class action, on behalf of 900 men, was filed against the Stone Park Police. The lawsuit alleges criminal RICO violations against the police illegal arrests that made just to generate money for the village. The arrests concern false allegations that men were soliciting a prostitute.

Burns et al v. Minneapolis Police Department, et al.
Choked an African American man to death during an arrest, while the man did not resist the officer.

Torture in Chicago:
Some time ago, police officers for the City of Chicago, under the control and supervision of Commander Jon Burge, used torture as a means to extract "confessions" from innocent people the officers arrested.

The officers used many techniques; from the application of electricity to putting a bag over the victim's head, officers would torture people until they said what the officers wanted them to say. Not only does this practice violate the constitution (Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments) but innocent people went to jail, while the actual perpetrators roamed the streets. At the Law Office of Blake Horwitz, we are working on these cases to vindicate the rights of those that suffered under this regime.