In November of 1987, a leader of Chicago’s notorious Black Souls gang purportedly ordered a hit on rival drug dealers, so a group armed with Uzis gunned down two teenagers on Chicago’s West Side.

The alleged getaway driver Kevin Murray was convicted at trial and the case faded into the annals of Chicago history, until it reemerged amid allegations of torture against former Chicago police Det. Kriston Kato.

Nearly the state’s whole case was based on Murray’s alleged confession, court documents say.

The problem? Murray – as early as his first appearance in court in 1988 – claimed that Kato and his partner John Summerville beat the admission out of him.

Now, an Illinois appeals court has sent the case back to a trial judge for an evidentiary hearing, finding that Judge David Carlson impro

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