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August 15, 2024 at 4:59 PM. CHICAGO - Two Chicago police officers and a former Cook County assistant state’s attorney have been charged in a scheme to fraudulently collect more than $100,000 in ...
Nearly one year ago, a Cook County grand jury returned indictments accusing two former assistant state’s attorneys of misconduct in the prosecution of a man who the courts have said was ...
Cook County prosecutors on Wednesday dropped all charges against a 55-year-old man who has spent more than 16 years incarcerated in the 2006 home invasion and slaying of a popular rapper following ...
Children. 4. Education. Southern Illinois University (BA, JD) Kimberly M. Foxx (née Anderson; [1] born April 9, 1972) is an American politician, who is currently the State's Attorney (district attorney) for Cook County, Illinois. She manages the second largest prosecutor's office in the United States, consisting of approximately 700 attorneys ...
Prosecutorial misconduct. In jurisprudence, prosecutorial misconduct or prosecutorial overreach is "an illegal act or failing to act, on the part of a prosecutor, especially an attempt to sway the jury to wrongly convict a defendant or to impose a harsher than appropriate punishment." [1] It is similar to selective prosecution.
Operation Greylord. Operation Greylord was an investigation conducted jointly by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Chicago Police Department Internal Affairs Division and the Illinois State Police into corruption in the judiciary of Cook County, Illinois (the ...
Two men who fought a 12-year battle for exoneration after they were accused of killing a Chicago police officer filed sweeping lawsuits against the city, Cook County prosecutors, police officers ...
G. Flint Taylor. G. Flint Taylor (born April 16, 1946) is an American human rights and civil rights attorney based in Chicago, Illinois, who has litigated many high-profile police brutality, government misconduct and death penalty cases. Taylor has pursued public interest law to take on allegations of corrupt police tactics and wrongful ...