# Majczek and Marcinkiewicz

Overturned · 1932

Joseph Majczek and Theodore Marcinkiewicz were two Polish-American men arrested and convicted of the murder of 57-year-old Chicago police officer William D. Lundy on December 9, 1932. Initially, officials held 10 youths in custody on suspicion of killing the officer. Some 11½ years later in 1944, following the intervention of Chicago Times reporters John McPhaul and James McGuire, both men were exonerated of the…

Original record: https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=31165547
Case page: https://realjustice.ai/cases/majczek-and-marcinkiewicz-w31165547

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