A federal jury is set to decide whether disgraced former Chicago Police Department Detective Reynaldo Guevara coerced a man into confessing he committed a gruesome double murder and kidnapping in 1998, records show.
In the trial set to start May 11, the jury will be asked to decide whether Guevara coerced Arturo DeLeon-Reyes into confessing to a 1998 Bucktown double murder by striking him repeatedly in the head and lying about what he said during an interrogation that lasted nearly two days. DeLeon-Reyes’ confession was overturned in 2017 after a judge determined the former detective told “bald-faced lies” while under oath.
DeLeon-Reyes, who was sentenced to life in prison, was convicted alongside Garbriel Solache, who was sentenced to death in 2000, records show…