Recently Exonerated Thaddeus "TJ" Jimenez Arrested On Felony Drug Charge
Thaddeus "TJ" Jimenez, who was released from prison last year after serving 16 years for a murder conviction, has been arrested again. According to Rummana Hussain at the Chicago Sun-Times, police officers armed with a search warrant found 13 grams of suspected LSD, along with 3 loaded weapons - a 12 gauge Charles Daly shotgun, a Rock Island Armory 45 caliber semiautomatic, and a Glock 40 caliber semiautomatic - inside Jimenez's home. Apparently, the police also recovered 6 stolen GPS devices, six boxes of ammunition, two digital scales, and numerous plastic baggies. Jimenez was convicted in 1994 of murdering 19 year old Eric Morro. Jimenez was only 13 years old at the time. Jimenez received a new trial and was found guilty again in 1997. In 2006, lawyers from the Northwestern University Center on Wrongful Convictions undertook his case and convinced the Cook County State's Attorney's Office to re-investigate the case after they claimed one of the eyewitnesses in the case was recanting his testimony. Jimenez wound up being released from prison last summer. He has since filed a civil lawsuit against numerous Chicago police officers claiming they violated his right to a fair trial. The police officers are being represented by the law firm of Andrew M. Hale & Associates.
