Plaintiff:
Donald McCormick
Incident date:
08/10/2005
Location:
2650 S. California Ave.
Allegations:
Correctional officers from the Illinois Department of Corrections were assigned to transport McCormick, an inmate at Dixon Correctional Center, to the Cook County Criminal Court building for a hearing. When they arrived at the courthouse, the guards learned that his hearing had been moved to a different date. As the guards were headed back to Dixon with McCormick, they were stopped by Detectives Loftus and Shebish. The detectives asked the guards to take McCormick to a police station so they could use him in a lineup. The guards initially said no because a court order only allowed them to take McCormick to and from the courthouse. The detectives then spoke to the guards in private and convinced them to take McCormick to the police lineup. During the drive to the station, the guards lied to McCormick, saying they'd talked to the warden in Dixon and gotten permission to let the detectives use him for their lineup. Once at the station, McCormick pleaded with the guards to not to leave him with the detectives because he feared they'd hurt him. He also asked for a lawyer, but was denied. He was later moved to another station and, while being relocated, an unknown police officer hit him in the back. At the second station, McCormick was stripped naked and put in a cold cell by other police officers. McCormick later agreed to be fingerprinted and photographed so he could get his clothes back.