Part 1: The verdict: Dishonor
With impunity, prosecutors across the country have violated their oaths and the law, committing the worst kinds of deception in the most serious of cases. They have prosecuted black men,...
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Part 2: The flip side of a fair trial
On his first day as a prosecutor assigned to a trial courtroom at the Criminal Courts Building, Michael Goggin slid into the chair next to the judge's chambers and his...
POLICE CRIME LAB ON THE HOT SEAT
In the fall of 1992, during the rape trial of John Willis, a Chicago police crime laboratory technician took the stand and testified that DNA tests were inconclusive and could...
HARRIS CASE SUSPECT HAS RECORD OF ATTACKS
The lead suspect in the July slaying of 11-year-old Ryan Harris, currently under arrest on charges of sexually attacking a 10-year-old girl in January, has been convicted in two cases...
JUDGE TRANSFERRED OVER REMARKS
Cook County Circuit Judge Fe Fernandez--who ruled a father was not guilty of sexually abusing his children because the man's Sicilian background gave him different ideas about nudity--was ordered transferred...
YOUNG SUSPECTS SENT HOME
After six hours of often rancorous proceedings, a Juvenile Court judge late Thursday ordered a 7- and an 8-year-old charged with murder to be released to the custody of their...
DEATH SOUNDS ALARM
As family members mourned the loss of 5-year-old David Jones, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services removed four of his surviving siblings Friday from foster care homes and...
2 ISSUES DELAYING A KACZYNSKI DEAL
Plea negotiations to resolve the federal bombing charges against Unabomber defendant Theodore Kaczynski went into a deep freeze the moment Kaczynski demanded to represent himself and his lawyers responded by...
TRIAL DELAYS MAY SET MURDERER FREE
A Hickory Hills man who confessed to murdering a prostitute after she threatened to tell his wife of his infidelity was ordered freed from prison Thursday because prosecutors took too...
AUGUST 5, 1983
It was a Friday, and a group of lawyers--some prosecutors, some defense attorneys--had gathered in a Loop hotel on this day for a bachelor party. But the celebrating stopped when...