Informant testimony led to two life terms plus 100 years for ex-cop Steven Manning
Steven Manning (Photo: Illinois Department of Corrections)
Steven L. Manning, a former Chicago police officer and FBI informant, was convicted in Clay County Circuit Court in January 1992 of the 1984 kidnaping of two Kansas City drug dealers and sentenced by Judge Frank Conley to two consecutive life terms plus 100 years. In 1993, Manning was convicted and sentenced to death in Cook County, Illinois, for the murder of a suburban trucker. The convictions in both states were predicated on informant testimony. The Illinois case was reversed in 2000, and the charges were dropped in 2002. Manning was then returned to Missouri, where in 2002 he won a federal writ of habeas corpus from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighty Circuit. The Missouri charges were dropped on February 26, 2004.
