Cook County State's Attorney's Office
Recent News About Cook County State's Attorney's Office
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Gerald Reed retrial for murder could squash chance for Certificate of Innocence
A special prosecutor retried Gerald Reed for murder last week in a Cook County court.
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Settlement reached in Marquette Park Four, the first of Kim Foxx’s numerous exoneration cases
A settlement has been reached in the wrongful conviction cases of the so-called Marquette Park Four, convicted of a 1995 double murder at a car dealership on the Southwest Side.
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Kim Foxx gift-wraps another wrongful conviction settlement award – this time to two convicted of murdering a child
Last week, a Cook County judge granted brothers Sean Tyler and Reginald Henderson, convicted of the 1994 murder of a ten-year-old boy on the South Side
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Eileen O’Neill Burke has work cut out just prosecuting robberies
Last Thursday morning, eight West Loop businesses were robbed at gunpoint between 5.30 a.m. and 6.30 a.m.
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Cook County State's attorney candidate Fioretti: O'Niell Burke's campaign 'has been a bait and switch job from the beginning'
Bob Fioretti, Republican candidate for Cook County State’s Attorney, said Democrat candidate Eileen O’Niell Burke has been leading a “bait and switch” campaign since the start. Fioretti and O’Niell Burke are both on the general election ballot in November.
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Republican candidate Fioretti congratulates general election opponent Democrat candidate O'Niell Burke on primary win
Cook County State’s Attorney Republican candidate Bob Fioretti congratulates Democrat candidate Eileen O’Niell Burke on her success in the primary. The two candidates will both be on the general election ballot.
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Top Cook County prosecutor running for judge handicapped with poor colleague evaluations, association with State's Attorney Kim Foxx
Kim Foxx’s second in command, Risa Lanier, is running for judge in the 19th Subcircuit, despite being saddled with negative recommendations from area bar associations.
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Law school's wrongful conviction symposium will host advocates, not critics, on what’s driving multi-million-dollar lawsuits
The lineup of speakers at an upcoming wrongful conviction symposium hosted by the DePaul University College of Law consists purely of advocates for the incarcerated who claim that police and prosecutors framed, coerced, and in some cases tortured them into confessing to crimes they did not commit.
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State's attorney Kim Foxx ready to release long overdue documents surrounding controversial exonerations
Under the pressure of a lawsuit for violating the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), Foxx’s office has agreed to comply with the law.
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Now free, Brian Beals, convicted of murder in 1988, is well-positioned with attorneys and the media to mount a successful civil action
In mid-December, a Cook County judge vacated the conviction of Brian Beals, who served 37 years in prison for the murder of a six-year-old. Now free, Beals is poised to follow the paths of dozens of others exonerated for their crimes.
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Kim Foxx assistant working both sides of legal system in post-conviction cases
On December 8, just two days after being named head of Kim Foxx’s Conviction Review Unit
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Foxx assistant seen accepting 75K check for “school project” she claimed never generated revenue
The newly installed head of Kim Foxx’s post-conviction unit recently told a Cook County judge that a side business she fronts
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Kim Foxx praises one assistant prosecutor accused of misconduct, fires another
When in 2020 former Cook County prosecutor Nick Trutenko was accused of misconduct for not disclosing a relationship with a witness, he was fired immediately by State’s Attorney Kim Foxx.
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Judge knocks Foxx's new post-conviction head off case over business that presents 'disturbing appearance of impropriety'
A Cook County judge shredded the new head of Kim Foxx’s post-conviction unit over a side business she runs that connects inmates, claiming innocence, with defense attorneys.
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Open Letter: It's time for a Black man to serve as Cook County State's Attorney
Nearly two dozen prominent politicians have publicly endorsed Clayton Harris III for the position of Cook County State's Attorney, asserting that it is time a Black man held this role. The endorsement came in the form of an open letter to voters, which was first published by Politico.
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'Sickening' conflict of interest for new head of Kim Foxx’s post-conviction unit
The newly installed head of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s (CCSAO) post-conviction section, which reviews claims of innocence by prison inmates, runs a side business that connects attorneys with the inmates making the claims.
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Kim Foxx’s office strikes back against one of its former own
The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (CCSAO) is appealing to a federal judge to expand its “scope of intervention” in a civil trial against former Assistant State’s Attorney Nick Trutenko,
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What is Kim Foxx hiding? Part Two
Kim Foxx has refused to turn over files in the possession of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (CCSAO) covering the criminal prosecutions of two brothers convicted of the 1982 murders of two police officers – files that would help in the defense of a former CCSAO employee named in a wrongful conviction case brought by the surviving brother.
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Foxx owes her survival in office to a vague state law, and powerful political allies
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s recent move to fire a soft-on-crime circuit attorney is a public safety check that the attorneys general in many states have over their regional prosecutors.
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Girlfriend of convicted murderer front and center in defense of retired detective
The girlfriend of a convicted murderer and gang member could be key in the defense of a former Chicago detective named in a wrongful conviction trial.