APPELLATE COURT DECLARES CONVICTED ‘RAPIST’ COP’S INNOCENCE

We previously reported here that Chicago police Sargent John Herman was starting trial on accusations that he raped a woman in her home in 2004. But that was just the beginning of the story. Herman was convicted of the rape, but this week an Illinois appellate court reversed the conviction—NOT for a retrial—but to set an innocent man free, because he is NOT GUILTY. This case should be a lesson to all of us about forming conclusions about a defendant until the appellate process is finished.