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<h3 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="color: #808080;"><em>“I’m just trying to deposit my check”. “I just wanted to be treated like anyone else” &#8211; Darryl Fulton</em></span><br />
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<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Chase Bank branch in Chicago wouldn&#8217;t deposit wrongfully convicted man&#8217;s check compensating him </strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Darryl Fulton was wrongly convicted for rape and murder, then spent 23 years behind bars</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Fulton and co-defendant Nevest Coleman were convicted for the 1994 slaying of Antwinica Bridgeman, who disappeared after her 20th birthday party in Englewood, Chicago</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Two weeks after Bridgeman disappeared, Fulton’s co-defendant Nevest Coleman found her body in an abandoned basement of the Englewood home where he lived with his family. &#8211; Coleman’s mother called police</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Although no physical evidence ever linked Coleman and Fulton to the attack, both men say they were coerced into confessing by detectives with a history of misconduct</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>They immediately recanted, still convicted, they were each sentenced to life in prison for the murder</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Recently discovered DNA evidence matched a serial rapist, prosecutors dropped charges against the men last winter</strong></span></h6>
<h6 class="spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>In March the men were awarded certificates of innocence. Each man has a civil rights lawsuit pending against the city of Chicago</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 data-page="1"><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-296554" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Darryl-Fulton-4-Copy.jpg" alt="Darryl Fulton 4 - Copy" width="1350" height="759" />Chicago native D</strong><strong>arryl Fulton [photo], who was wrongly convicted, experienced further miscarriage of justice and loss of dignity at a Chicago branch of Chase Bank while trying to cash his state money for his time in prison</strong></h6>
<p data-page="1">An attorney representing a man who spent 23 years locked up for a murder he didn’t commit says her client was turned away twice by Chase Bank when he tried to deposit a check from the state of Illinois to compensate him for his time imprisoned.</p>
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<p>Chase, meanwhile, said it made a mistake in turning him away once but denied doing it twice, calling the second incident this week a misunderstanding.</p>
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<p>The exonerated man, Darryl Fulton, said he was “proven innocent” and expressed frustration with the ordeal.</p>
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<p>“I’m just trying to deposit my check,” Fulton said. “I just wanted to be treated like anyone else.”</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-296552" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Darryl-Fulton-right-walks-with-his-lawyer-Kathleen-Zellner-Copy.jpg" alt="Darryl Fulton, right, walks with his lawyer Kathleen Zellner - Copy" width="1350" height="759" /> D</strong><strong>arryl Fulton [right] and his lawyer leave the Cooke County after his conviction for rape and murder was vacated in March, 2017<br />
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<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-296556" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Darryl-Fulton-released-from-jail-on-Nov-20-2017-Copy.jpg" alt="Darryl Fulton released from jail on Nov 20, 2017 - Copy" width="1350" height="759" />Vindication: A teary Darryl Fulton hugs his daughter, Jaszulyn Fulton, after being released from jail on Nov 20, 2017</strong></h6>
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<p>Kathleen Zellner criticized Chase for not allowing Fulton to deposit a $169,876 check from the state at its bank branch on 79th Street and Cicero Avenue, questioning whether racism played a part. The first time Fulton tried to deposit the money, Zellner said, the bank said she would have to endorse the check because her firm’s name was under his, though Fulton’s name was on the “pay to the order of” line.</p>
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<p>Zellner said the law firm’s name was on the check because it was mailed to her office.</p>
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<p>The second time, Zellner said, Chase contended Fulton signed above her name and the check would need to be deposited in her account. Zellner got on the phone with the bank but employees wouldn’t deposit it, she said.</p>
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<p>In a statement, Chase said it “should have accepted (Fulton’s) check during his initial visit.” The bank did not specifically address whether Fulton’s race was a factor.</p>
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<p>“We did offer to deposit the check on his return visit and have reached out to him to clear up any confusion,” the bank said. “We regret the error and apologize for the inconvenience.”</p>
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<p>Zellner disputed that Chase offered to accept the check. She said he will be changing banks and that he took a new check from her client account that he can deposit.</p>
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<p>Fulton’s check comes from a state fund for wrongly imprisoned people. Zellner has represented numerous wrongly convicted men and said she’s never had a problem with her clients depositing their checks before.</p>
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<p>“I find it particularly outrageous because he was wrongfully convicted,” Zellner said. “The check is from the state of Illinois to him and I can’t attribute any other reason except they’re discriminating against him because he’s a black male.”</p>
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<p>Fulton, released from prison in November, has been working at a factory in the near western suburbs.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-296548" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Nevest-Coleman-hugs-his-daughter-Chanequa-Allen-and-son-Nicholas-Coleman-outside-the-prison-on-Nov.-20-2017.jpg" alt="Nevest Coleman hugs his daughter, Chanequa Allen, and son Nicholas Coleman outside the prison on Nov. 20, 2017" width="1350" height="759" />Fulton’s co-defendant Nevest Coleman hugs his daughter and his son on release from prison Nov 20, 2017, after 23 years behind bars for a crime he didn&#8217;t commit</strong></h6>
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<p>Fulton spent 23 years behind bars for the 1994 slaying of Antwinica Bridgeman, who disappeared after her 20th birthday party in Englewood.</p>
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<p>Two weeks after Bridgeman disappeared, Fulton’s co-defendant Nevest Coleman found her body in an abandoned basement of the Englewood home where he lived with his family, and Coleman’s mother called authorities.</p>
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<p>No physical evidence ever linked Coleman and Fulton to the attack, a Chicago Tribune review of court records and police reports found.</p>
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<p>Both men say they were coerced into confessing by detectives with a history of alleged misconduct and immediately recanted. They each described abuse at the hands of Chicago police officers.</p>
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<p>Fulton and Coleman were sentenced to life in prison for the murder, but recently discovered DNA evidence matched a serial rapist. Prosecutors dropped charges against the men last winter, and in March a Cook County judge awarded the men certificates of innocence. Each man has a civil rights lawsuit pending against the city of Chicago.</p>
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<p>In the time since their release, Coleman returned to his old job as a groundskeeper with the Chicago White Sox, generating national headlines and an ESPN documentary.</p>
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Chase Bank Chicago, twice refused to deposit wrongfully convicted man’s check compensating him for 23 years behind bars – Darryl Fulton says “I’m just trying to deposit my check, I just wanted to be treated like anyone else”
