Though Burge was fired more than a quarter-century ago and died last year, the city is still paying for his time in the Police Department. Lawyers continue to fight a suit from former inmate Stanley Wrice, who claims that cops under Burge’s command beat him before he confessed to a vicious 1982 sexual assault that happened in his home. While a judge threw out Wrice’s conviction and prosecutors dropped the charges, a Cook County judge denied him a certificate of innocence, concluding that he was “most likely guilty.”