On April 26, 1983 officers took James Andrews to a police station where Detectives Madigan and McWeeny asked him about the murder of Keith Lewis. They chained him to a wall, yelled at him and hit him with flashlights and their fists. The detectives coerced a confession from Andrews that implicated Fauntleroy in the Lewis murder. Fauntleroy was then arrested based on Andrews' coerced confession and nothing else. During his transport to the police station, Detectives Madigan and McWeeny took Fauntleroy to an undeveloped, wooded area near 111th Street and the Bishop Ford Expressway and said, "Look at him, that's how they look when they're guilty." Det. McWeeny pointed a gun at Fauntleroy and said, "How would you like it if I used this on him?" Fauntleroy urinated himself. Detectives then took Fauntleroy to a police station and initially did not tell him why he was there. Detectives McWeeny and Madigan then questioned Fauntleroy by chaining him to a wall, asking him about the murder and hitting him with flashlights and their fists. Fauntleroy asked for a phone to call a lawyer or his family. Det. McWeeny responded, "This ain't a TV show. You get a phone call when we get what we want." Fauntleroy was denied food and water, could not use a restroom and was not read his Miranda rights while he was in custody. Detectives then brought Assistant State's Attorney William Merrit to Fauntleroy. Detectives told Fauntleroy that Merrit was a lawyer so he wouldn't need to call his family to get one of his own. Fauntleroy then told Merrit, who he thought was his lawyer and not a prosecutor, what the detectives had coached him into saying so he could leave police custody. Fauntleroy was convicted of the murder and armed robbery of Lewis in 1986 and sentenced to life in prison plus 60 years. In 2009, Fauntleroy's conviction was vacated. He was released from prison after the Cook County State's Attorney decided not to pursue a new trial.
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