Bartlit Beck Wins $15 Million for Wrongly Convicted Man
James Newsome v. McNally & McCabe (2001)
Phil Beck and Sean Gallagher won James Newsome a $15 million jury verdict in Federal Court in Chicago for his wrongful conviction of a crime he did not commit. Bartlit Beck showed the jury that detectives had rigged the police lineup in which witnesses falsely identified Mr. Newsome as the murderer.