In September Robert Bouto struck a $3.1 million “good faith” settlement with Cook County in his wrongful conviction lawsuit stemming from the 1993 murder of Salvador Ruvalcaba.
An expert on the Venezuelan crime group Tren de Aragua (TdA) told Fox News Digital that assassinations by members of the group will be on the rise, particularly in states and cities that protect illegal immigrants with sanctuary policies.
Hope may be fading among some former prosecutors and law enforcement that the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office under Eileen O'Neill Burke would return to a strict adherence to the law, and not continue advancing the progressive agenda that Kim Foxx championed for eight years.
Defense attorneys for former Chicago detectives are challenging an affidavit filed by convicted murderer Nevest Coleman in his wrongful conviction lawsuit, calling it a “sham.”
In her first move as Cook County State’s Attorney, Eileen O’Neill Burke said she would seek detention for violations of the Illinois PICA Act, the two-year-old law that banned so-called assault weapons and other firearms and magazines—a law that a federal judge in downstate Illinois judge recently ruled unconstitutional.
Trump’s announcement that he will pick former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as U.S. Attorney General could be just what Chicago needs to reverse some of the wreckage done by the anti-police radicalism among the city’s top officials, wrote former Chicago FOP spokesman, Martin Preib, in his column “Crooked City.”
A federal judge has rejected a motion by plaintiffs Gabriel Solache and Arturo DeLeon-Reyes to set a trial date in their controversial wrongful conviction lawsuits.
In a ruling that could set a frightening precedent for prosecutors, Lake County Judge Daniel Shanes is expected to decide on criminal charges against former Cook County assistant state’s attorneys Nick Trutenko and Andrew Horvat by mid-January.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Fuentes rejected a motion by defense attorneys to re-depose convicted murderer Jose Cruz in his wrongful conviction lawsuit brought after former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx exonerated him in 2022 of a 1993 gang-related murder.
A deposition has complicated the wrongful conviction lawsuits filed by Gabriel Solache and Arturo DeLeon-Reyes, who were exonerated in 2017 after being wrongfully convicted of a 1998 double homicide.
If the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office conspires with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) to win convictions —as some convicted murderers and their lawyers have alleged in civil rights cases — then they are doing a lousy job of it.
There is little legal recourse for sanctuary jurisdictions to prevent President-elect Donald Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan, from sending U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in to capture and deport illegal aliens, Don Rosenberg, president of Advocates for Victims of Illegal Alien Crime (AVIAC), told Chicago City Wire.
The prosecution rested its case against Nick Trutenko and another former assistant state’s attorney on Nov. 14, and defense attorneys immediately filed a motion and argued for the dismissal of all charges.