Stanley Wrice's conviction overturned after decades in prison CHICAGO, Dec. 10 (UPI) -- The conviction of a Chicago man who says he was beaten into a rape confession was overturned Tuesday by a Cook County, Ill., judge. Stanley Wrice, 59, who spent three decades behind bars, said he was forced to confess to a gang rape by detectives under orders from a police commander, Jon Burge, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Judge Richard Walsh said the allegations against the detectives were unrebutted, including taking orders from the Area 2 commander, including an allegation they beat Wrice and Bobbie Joe Williams. Williams later testified against Wrice at trial. Wrice had been serving a 100-year sentence when his conviction was overturned. "I was beaten into a false statement," Williams said, the newspaper reported. I was scared. The detectives, John Byrne and Peter Dignan, invoked the Fifth Amendment during Monday's evidentiary hearing. Appellate Judge Bertina Lampkin tried Wrice when she was a prosecutor, but said earlier Tuesday co-defendant Williams never told her about abuse. As assistant special prosecutor Myles O'Rourke gave closing arguments, the judge asked Walsh rhetorically if chaining a man to a wall and using a flashlight to hit his testicles was "good clean fun."