Whatever the outcome of the Jon Burge perjury and obstruction of justice trial, the legal battles that have swirled around him for more than 20 years, and that have cost the city millions of dollars, will drag on.

“Not only legal battles, but political battles,” said Flint Taylor, who represents several men who accused Mr. Burge and others of torturing them while at Area 2 violent-crimes unit of the police department on the Far South Side in the 1970s and ’80s. “This is just one phase in the long struggle against police torture.”

The jury will resume deliberations Monday, and Mr. Taylor said that he plans to file a federal civil lawsuit against Mr. Burge, Mayor Richard M. Daley, LeRoy Martin, a former police superintendent, and the “cast of characters” who worked as detectives under Mr. Burge, 62. The suit will be filed, he said, on behalf of Ronald Kitchen, a Burge accuser whose murder conviction was overturned.

Meanwhile, Representative Danny K. Davis, Democrat of Illinois, is pushing for federal legislation that would make police torture a federal crime without a statute of limitations.