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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 ...
Cook County prosecutors drop charges against man accused in rapper’s slaying amid allegations of prosecutorial misconduct Madeline Buckley, Chicago Tribune Updated October 12, 2023 at 5:12 PM
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 ...
The sexual abuse scandal in the Chicago archdiocese in the late 20th and early 21st century is a major chapter in the series of Catholic sex abuse cases in the United States and Ireland. A 2023 report by the Illinois Attorney General found that more than 450 Catholic clergy in Illinois abused nearly 2,000 children since 1950.
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 ...
Jon Graham Burge (December 20, 1947 – September 19, 2018) was an American police detective and commander in the Chicago Police Department. He was found guilty of lying about "directly participat [ing] in or implicitly approv [ing] the torture" of at least 118 people in police custody in order to force false confessions. [1]
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 ...
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.