Join CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren and Joey Mogul and Flint Taylor of the People's Law Office to discuss their work to end torture – from the notorious Chicago police torture cases, in which former Chicago police commander Jon Burge was at long last recently indicted and arrested by the FBI on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice charges related to the cover-up of the torture of over 100 African American men by Burge and officers under his command at Chicago Police Department Areas 2 and 3 over a 20 year period, to U.S. torture and war crimes from Afghanistan, to Abu Ghraib, to Guantanamo Bay and CIA secret detention sites.

Vince Warren will also discuss CCR's call to end torture in the first 100 Days of the new administration as part of its 100 Days campaign to restore the Constitution, which calls for ending torture, rendition, and illegal detention, protecting dissent, abolishing preventive detention, limiting state secrets privilege, reining in presidential war powers, stopping warrantless wiretapping, and rolling back executive power. Joey Mogul and Flint Taylor will discuss their work to end police torture in Chicago, and their struggle to bring the perpetrators to justice.

Sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild – DePaul Chapter, the National Lawyers Guild – Chicago Chapter and the Center for Constitutional Rights.

VINCENT WARREN became executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in 2006. He spent seven years as national senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), where he led national constitutional and impact litigation to advance civil rights and civil liberties. In that capacity, he litigated Gratz v. Bollinger, the companion to the landmark case upholding affirmative action in college admissions. Beyond the courtroom, he was a leading African American voice for affirmative action, collaborating with the African American Policy Forum to launch a national public education project about local policies to remedy systemic discrimination.

At the ACLU he also litigated Dasrath v. Continental Airlines on behalf of plaintiffs removed from an airplane shortly after 9/11 because they were perceived to be Arab or Muslim. Vince coordinated the ACLU's Hurricane Katrina Response Team; established the ACLU Native American Working Group to advance civil rights and combat educational discrimination in the Dakotas; and created and chaired the New York Indigent Defense Litigation Roundtable.

Vince has also worked as a staff attorney in the criminal defense division of the Legal Aid Society in Brooklyn, the single largest provider of criminal defense services for the City of New York. His public service includes working as a judicial law clerk in the U.S. District Court in New York; monitoring the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings in South Africa under the auspices of the National Lawyers Guild; and serving as a volunteer with the Haitian Refugee Center in Miami.

JOEY L. MOGUL is an attorney who focuses on civil rights cases involving police misconduct, criminal cases brought against individuals engaged in street demonstrations and other forms of First Amendment expression, and capital defense cases. She handles all stages of litigation, from trial preparation through trial, appeal and post-conviction proceedings. She is also an adjunct law professor at Depaul University College of Law teaching at the Civil Rights Clinic and recently published "The Dykier, the Butcher, the Better: the State's Use of Homophobia and Sexism to Execute Women in the United States" in the New York City Law Review. She has been actively engaged in the litigation and community organizing around the Chicago Police Torture cases, recently presenting these cases to the United Nations Committee Against Torture and the Human Rights Committee in Geneva, Switzerland in 2006. She is one of the attorneys representing the class of 800 individuals wrongfully arrested and detained at an anti-war protest on March 20, 2003. She previously represented Miguel Castillo in post-conviction proceedings overturning his wrongful conviction for a murder he did not commit and obtaining a pardon on the basis of his innocence. She subsequently represented him in his civil wrongful conviction case which settled for $1.2 million.

G. FLINT TAYLOR, a graduate of Brown University and Northwestern Law School, is a founding partner of the People's Law Office in Chicago, an office which has been dedicated to litigating civil rights, police violence, government misconduct, and death penalty cases for nearly 40 years. Among the landmark cases that Mr. Taylor has litigated are the Fred Hampton Black Panther case, the Greensboro, North Carolina case against the Ku Klux Klan and Nazis, the Ford Heights Four case in which four innocent men received a record $36 million settlement for their wrongful conviction and imprisonment, and a series of cases arising from a pattern and practice of police torture and cover-up by Jon Burge, Mayor Richard Daley, State's Attorney Devine, and numerous other police and government officials, four of which were recently settled against the City for $19.8 million. Mr. Taylor has successfully argued the cases of Cleavinger v. Saxner and Buckley v. Fitzsimmons before the United States Supreme Court. He has also obtained multi-million dollar settlements for former death row inmate Ronald Jones, who was exonerated after DNA tests established his innocence, and for a seven year old boy who was falsely accused of the murder of 11 year old Ryan Harris by the Chicago Police. He has also represented and continues to represent numerous other exonerated inmates who spent decades in prison and on death row, including Burge torture victim Darrell Cannon, Randy Steidl, Paul Terry and Jerry Miller. Mr. Taylor is a longtime National Lawyers Guild member, a founding editor of the Police Misconduct and Civil Rights Law Reporter, was named by Chicago Magazine as one of Chicago's Toughest Lawyers, and is the 2009 recipient of the William R. Ming Award Jr. of the Cook County Bar Association, awarded to a lawyer "for dedication and significant contribution to the causes of civil rights and individual liberties."