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‘Have a safe trip to Danville’: judge soundly rejects resentencing bid backed by prosecutors and sends man back to prison

May 6, 2022 at 6:38 p.m.

In a lengthy and caustic tirade Friday afternoon, Cook County Judge Stanley Sacks denied prosecutors' bid to release one man from prison a year early, a preliminary test of the...

Chicago police officers investigate the scene of a double homicide on the steps of Friendship Baptist Church on Aug. 13, 2017, in the Austin community. Emmanuel Fleming was one of two men gunned down on the steps of the West Side church and was a witness to a 2016 fatal shooting. In 2016, Fleming was wounded in a July shooting near the church.

Witness in murder case sues after Cook County judge orders her jailed in ‘fake subpoena’ flap

May 4, 2022 at 6:29 p.m.

A woman who was present when her brother was slain nearly six years ago has filed a federal lawsuit against the Cook County state's attorney's office after she was thrown...

The casket of Chicago police officer Clifton Lewis is carried from the church on Jan. 5, 2012.

Defense allowed to review investigative file after allegations police did not disclose evidence in slaying of off-duty cop

May 3, 2022 at 5:18 p.m.

Defense attorneys for a man convicted of killing off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis were granted permission Tuesday to view internal investigative files of the Chicago Police Department on the...

Lawyers for man convicted of killing off-duty Chicago police officer allege department hid evidence in murder investigation

May 2, 2022 at 5:00 a.m.

Chicago police scrubbed evidence that could have helped clear a man convicted of the murder of off-duty Officer Clifton Lewis, and kept further evidence hidden from both prosecutors and defense...

45th Ward superintendent connected to embattled alderman has gun case added to court troubles

April 26, 2022 at 6:12 p.m.

When ATF agents and Chicago police arrested 45th Ward boss Charles Sikanich on Monday, police records state, Sikanich made one request over and over: Let me contact Ald. Jim Gardiner,...

Daniel Rodriguez at his home in Berwyn on Sept. 24, 2020.

‘He got that moment today’: Prosecutors drop man’s murder case connected to disgraced ex-police detective

April 25, 2022 at 5:39 p.m.

Daniel Rodriguez walked out of a Cook County courtroom wiping tears from under his mask. He was still in a daze. "Thirty-one years of waking up with this every day...

Joshua Tepfer, with the Exoneration Project, speaks to the media following the hearing to vacate convictions connected to corrupt ex-Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on April 22, 2022.

Dozens of convictions vacated in final push to drop cases connected to convicted former Chicago police sergeant

April 22, 2022 at 6:52 p.m.

Cook County prosecutors on Friday reversed course and agreed that 44 convictions related to convicted ex-Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts and his crew should be thrown out. Prosecutors initially filed...

Former FOP representative Kriston Kato testifies in court on Aug. 11, 2017. The ex-police detective has been the target of complaints alleging excessive force dating back decades.

After Cook County judges and prosecutors step aside, special prosecutors named in cases linked to allegations of misconduct by ex-Chicago police detective

April 19, 2022 at 2:46 p.m.

Decades-old cases involving accusations against a former Chicago police detective might be emerging from legal limbo with the appointment of special prosecutors after Cook County judges and prosecutors withdrew from...

Two views of an animated video portraying Officer Jason Van Dyke and Laquan McDonald is shown to the jury during the trial for the shooting death of McDonald at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on Sept. 25, 2018.

Feds announce they won’t pursue case against former cop Jason Van Dyke in shooting of Laquan McDonald

April 18, 2022 at 5:44 p.m.

Federal prosecutors will not bring a case against the former Chicago cop who killed 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, U.S. Attorney John Lausch's office announced Monday. Jason Van Dyke has already been...

R. Kelly turns himself in at 1st District police headquarters in Chicago on Feb. 22, 2019.

Judge denies R. Kelly’s bid to delay sentencing on racketeering conviction in New York

April 14, 2022 at 4:20 p.m.

A federal judge in New York on Thursday denied singer R. Kelly's bid to delay sentencing for his racketeering conviction until after his trial on separate charges in Chicago in...

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