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    Joseph Hurst - Illinois


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    November 21, 2013

    Chicago Cops To Testify Against Parole For 2 Cop Killers

    CHICAGO (CBS) – A group of Chicago police officers headed to Springfield Thursday, to argue against parole for two convicted cop killers.

    WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger reports anytime an inmate convicted of killing a Chicago police officer comes up for parole, officers go to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board to stand for the fallen.

    “We’re going representing the friends and the family members who have been without these officers,” said Chicago Police Sgt. Francis Iglinski.

    Both cases up before the board on Thursday date back decades: the 1967 shooting death of Officer Herman Stallworth, and the 1976 murder of Officer Terrence Loftus.

    “Stallworth was killed 46 years ago. Loftus was killed 37 years ago. That’s birthdays, holidays, celebrations that their families never got to have with them,” Iglinski said.

    Joseph Hurst, now 69, originally was sentenced to death after he was convicted of killing Stallworth during a traffic stop on the South Side. His sentence was later changed to between 100 and 300 years during a moratorium on the death penalty in the 1970s

    He also was convicted of trying to kill Stallworth’s partner, officer Eugene Irwin, during the same traffic stop.

    Ronnie Carrasquillo, now 55, was convicted of killing Loftus, who was trying to break up a gang fight on the Northwest Side, while off duty in October 1976.

    “Carrasquillo came out of another residence, and fired a gun in the direction of the officer standing there, and struck Officer Loftus,” Iglinski said.

    Carrasquillo is serving a 200 to 600 year sentence. Both Carrasquillo and Hurst are being held at the Dixon Correctional Center

    Chicago police officers will testify against both inmates’ release, arguing they should spend the rest of their lives behind bars for killing a police officer.

    http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/11/...2-cop-killers/

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    Chicago prosecutor drops opposition to parole for convicted cop killer

    Officer Herman Stallworth, 37, was a Navy vet and 8-year Chicago police officer when he was killed in 1967

    By Michael Ruiz
    Fox News

    Chicago's top prosecutor has dropped her opposition to parole for a man convicted of killing a police officer and shooting another during a traffic stop in the late 1960s.

    Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, who also declined to prosecute the actor Jussie Smollett's alleged attempt to fake a hate crime, reversed course a day before Joseph Hurst, 77, will go before the Illinois Prisoner Review Board on Thursday.

    Hurst was convicted of killing a city police officer in 1967 and originally sentenced to death in the electric chair. After the U.S. Supreme Court halted capital punishment in 1972, he received a new sentence of 100 to 300 years in prison.

    Foxx did not immediately explain her reversal. In a statement to the Chicago Sun-Times, she said her office’s "lack of opposition should not be construed as a show of support but rather the office’s position that we would no longer actively object."

    She noted that Officer Herman Stallworth’s family strongly opposes parole.

    Stallworth, 37, was a Navy veteran and eight-year member of the Chicago Police Department when he was gunned down in the line of duty on May 23, 1967, according to the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation. He had a wife and four children.

    Stallworth and his partner, Officer Eugene Ervin, had pulled over Hurst, then 24, in a traffic stop on Cottage Grove Avenue. When Ervin returned to the patrol vehicle to call in the plates, Hurst shot Stallworth multiple times in the torso.

    Hurst then shot and severely wounded Ervin, who called for backup, received treatment and eventually recovered, according to the Foundation.

    Hurst allegedly tried to flee and continued to fire as backup officers arrived until he ran out of bullets. Then he surrendered. He was on probation for a prior robbery crimes at the time.

    Hurst’s parole is the second of a convicted cop killer Foxx has dropped her opposition to since a wave of anti-police protests across the country over the summer.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-p...ole-cop-killer
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