Chicago City Wire: Pattern emerges of private detectives pressuring witnesses to change testimony in wrongful conviction cases
“I am one of the nice guys,” Scherer said to Rodriguez according to the November 8, 2022 police report, “and there are going to be some not so nice guys who will come looking for you.”
The latest instance in what appears to be a pattern of private detectives pressuring witnesses to change their testimony in wrongful conviction cases involves Destiny Rodriguez, a key witness in the 2011 murder of Chicago police officer Clifton Lewis.
An Elgin Police Department report obtained by Chicago City Wire shows that Rodriguez filed a complaint about contact she had with Jordan Scherer, a private detective who asked her to claim that the Chicago police bribed her to testify against Alexander Villa— one of the three convicted of Lewis's murder while he was working off-duty as a security guard at a West Side convenience store.
“I am one of the nice guys,” Scherer said to Rodriguez according to the November 8, 2022 police report, “and there are going to be some not so nice guys who will come looking for you.”
