Wrongful Imprisonment Claims
Claims by people who say they were wrongly imprisoned. Current claims are heard under section 8(c) of the Court of Claims Act (705 ILCS 505/8(c)); this category also includes earlier claims decided before that provision took its present form. The opinions below are all of the published decisions in this category.
33Published opinions, 1958–2023
16With a dollar award
$159,743Total awarded in these opinions
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By decade
| Decade | Opinions | Awards | Total awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 2 | 0 | — |
| 1960s | 14 | 7 | $48,943 |
| 1970s | 12 | 6 | $69,500 |
| 1980s | 4 | 2 | $15,000 |
| 2020s | 1 | 1 | $26,300 |
All opinions
| Case | Date | Outcome | Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Fole Y v. State of Illinois 22 Ill. Ct. Cl. 684 | January 14, 1958 | denied | — |
| Bennie Truitt v. State of Illinois 23 Ill. Ct. Cl. 58 | July 24, 1958 | denied | — |
| Jonnia Dirkans v. State of Illinois 25 Ill. Ct. Cl. 343 | February 25, 1965 | denied | — |
| James Strong v. State of Illinois 25 Ill. Ct. Cl. 231 | November 9, 1965 | denied | — |
| Penwell v. State of Illinois 25 Ill. Ct. Cl. 284 | April 7, 1966 | awarded | $6,581.64 |
| St. Mary's Hospital, East St. Louis v. State of Illinois 25 Ill. Ct. Cl. 342 | July 14, 1966 | awarded | $560.82 |
| Norrisw. Anderson v. State of Illinois 26 Ill. Ct. Cl. 119 | March 20, 1967 | awarded | $12,000 |
| John Hudson v. State of Illinois 26 Ill. Ct. Cl. 178 | August 16, 1967 | denied | — |
| William Bender v. State of Illinois 26 Ill. Ct. Cl. 383 | August 16, 1967 | denied | — |
| Henry Napue v. State of Illinois 26 Ill. Ct. Cl. 192 | October 18, 1967 | denied | — |
| Essau Martin v. State of Illinois 26 Ill. Ct. Cl. 371 | August 14, 1968 | denied | — |
| Kane County Service Company v. Iilinois 26 Ill. Ct. Cl. 206 | September 25, 1968 | awarded | $300.05 |
| Parham v. State of Illinois 26 Ill. Ct. Cl. 246 | November 12, 1968 | awarded | $10,000 |
| Joseph Smith v. State of Illinois 26 Ill. Ct. Cl. 290 | February 24, 1969 | awarded | $4,500 |
| In re Robert L. Conroy 26 Ill. Ct. Cl. 303 | February 24, 1969 | denied | — |
| Melvin H. Shook v. State of Illinois 27 Ill. Ct. Cl. 29 | Ilcxwnber 18, 1969 | awarded | $15,000 |
| Roney R. Nunes v. State of Illinois 27 Ill. Ct. Cl. 50 | July 9, 1970 | awarded | $20,000 |
| William Burke v. State of Illinois 27 Ill. Ct. Cl. 379 | April 18, 1972 | awarded | $0 |
| Jerome Tyler v. State of Illinois 28 Ill. Ct. Cl. 90 | October 19, 1972 | awarded | $6,000 |
| Solomon Dawson v. State of Illinois 28 Ill. Ct. Cl. 255 | March 22, 1973 | dismissed | — |
| Stanley W. Peterson v. State of Illinois 29 Ill. Ct. Cl. 398 | July 12, 1973 | denied | — |
| Emile Washington v. State of Illinois 29 Ill. Ct. Cl. 371 | April 18, 1974 | awarded | $7,500 |
| Valentine Harpstreith v. State of Illinois 30 Ill. Ct. Cl. 546 | May 8, 1975 | denied | — |
| Mohammed Mostafa v. State of Illinois 30 Ill. Ct. Cl. 567 | May 13, 1975 | awarded | $15,000 |
| Louis Pirovolos v. State of Illinois 31 Ill. Ct. Cl. 82 | March 29, 1976 | awarded | $12,500 |
| Ronald Edward Coffey v. State of Illinois 31 Ill. Ct. Cl. 350 | April 21, 1977 | denied | — |
| George R. Hammond v. State of Illinois 31 Ill. Ct. Cl. 362 | June 16, 1977 | awarded | $8,500 |
| Michael H. Rotman v. State of Illinois 33 Ill. Ct. Cl. 18 | December 10, 1979 | dismissed | — |
| John T. Thomas v. Illinois; 34 Ill. Ct. Cl. 8 | March 21, 1980 | awarded | $12,000 |
| Danny Lee Horton v. State of Illinois 34 Ill. Ct. Cl. 80 | August 4, 1980 | awarded | $3,000 |
| Ernest Kelly v. State of Illinois 36 Ill. Ct. Cl. 187 | September 19, 1983 | dismissed | — |
| Elder Mack v. State of Illinois 37 Ill. Ct. Cl. 1 | September 24, 1984 | denied | — |
| Antoine Sawyer v. State of Illinois 75 Ill. Ct. Cl. 265 | March 16, 2023 | awarded | $26,300 |
Counts and totals come from the extracted fields of the published opinions in this archive, which may contain
OCR errors; the official volume PDF is the source of record. Volumes 24 and 32 are not yet included.
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