In 2002, Edgar Naranjo was a 26-year-old drug addict desperate for money. He hatched a plan to rob a flea market vendor he figured had a large supply of cologne he could unload for cash. His haphazard scheme went badly awry. After Naranjo and a teenage accomplice broke into their target’s Northwest Side home, the vendor’s son, a Chicago police officer, shot and killed the younger intruder and wounded Naranjo, who was later arrested after seeking treatment. For his role in the home invasion, Naranjo wound up with a 40-year prison sentence under Illinois’ felony murder rule, a controversial law …
