Chicago police officer convicted of killing Laquan McDonald in 2014 to be released from prison
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Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, who was convicted in 2018 of killing 16-year-old Laquan McDonald in 2014, will be released from prison next month, according to local reports.
Sources told FOX 32 Chicago, however, that Van Dyke is being released early in February on good behavior.
"Some media seems to be reporting that Mr. Van Dyke's release ‘early’ is extraordinary. It's not," attorney Jennifer Blagg, who handled Van Dyke's since-withdrawn appeal in 2019, told Fox News Digital in a Saturday statement, adding that each prisoner within an Illinois Department or Corrections facility convicted of second-degree murder must serve at least 50% of their sentence if they earn daily, good behavior credits.
"Hence, his out date was always going to be around this time period or earlier had he been allowed to earn additional good-time credit," Blagg explained.
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