Robert K. O'Daniell
Former Urbana police officer DeAnn Winn-Maurer demonstrates the 2002 attack that damaged her hand.
CHAMPAIGN – Had DeAnn Winn-Maurer known Chandra Gill wanted a governor's pardon, she would have objected.
She would have told the Illinois Prisoner Review Board members, hearing the Chicago activist's request to be pardoned from a 2003 Champaign County felony conviction, that she lives with constant pain.
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