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On March 13, 1986, Brzeczek was indicted by a Cook County grand jury on 24 counts of theft and official misconduct, which stemmed from trips he took under the pretenses of attending meetings which the Cook County State's Attorney's office alleged had never taken place. [7]
He was also appointed to serve as presiding judge of Illinois's first statewide Grand Jury. [7] He was elected to the Supreme Court of Illinois for the First District in 2000. As a law professor, Fitzgerald taught at The John Marshall Law School and Chicago-Kent College of Law , where he was assistant coordinator of the trial advocacy program ...
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (in case citations, N.D. Ill.) is the federal trial court with jurisdiction over the northern counties of Illinois. It is one of the busiest federal trial courts in the United States, with famous cases including those of Al Capone and the Chicago Eight. [1]
A man accused of murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in an attack on a Palestinian-American woman and her son was indicted Thursday by an Illinois grand jury. The eight-count indictment ...
Cook County is expected to pay $17 million to a Chicago man exonerated in the 1982 killings of two Chicago police officers, according to court records and a recommendation from a county board ...
State law stipulates penalties for those who fail to appear for jury duty.
Daley Center is the central courthouse, and one of six courthouses for the County One of the Circuit Court's courthouses. The Circuit Court of Cook County is the largest of the 25 circuit courts (trial courts of original and general jurisdiction) in the judiciary of Illinois as well as one of the largest unified court systems in the United States – second only in size to the Superior Court ...
Unlike a petit jury, which resolves a particular civil or criminal case, a grand jury (typically having twelve to twenty-three members) serves as a group for a sustained period of time in all or many of the cases that come up in the jurisdiction, generally under the supervision of a federal U.S. attorney, a county district attorney, or a state ...