CHICAGO, Illinois -- At 4:30 PM today, Tuesday, October 17, a jury awarded Alejandro Dominguez $9 Million in his two weeks-long federal civil rights trial of the Waukegan Police Department for wrongfully convicting and imprisoning him for a rape he did not commit (S. Alejandro Dominguez v. City of Waukegan et al, No. 04 C 2907).

Alejandro Dominguez served over four years, from age 16 to 20, in a maximum security juvenile facility in Joliet, IL. Upon his release in 1993, he reopened his case, and after 10 years he was able to pay for DNA testing which proved his innocence. Mr. Dominguez is represented by the civil rights law firm of Loevy & Loevy Attorneys at Law, with lead counsel Jon Loevy and Mark Loevy-Reyes.