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Actor Jussie Smollett speaks to Judge James Linn after his sentence is read on March 10, 2022, at the Leighton Criminal Court Building.

State high court rejects Jussie Smollett’s attempt to throw out new charges

March 6, 2020 at 5:46 p.m.

The state's highest court has rejected actor Jussie Smollett's attempt to throw out the new charges against him and remove the special prosecutor who brought them. In an emergency motion...

Shomari Legghette, 47, gestures as he walks out of the courtroom on Oct. 28, 2020, after being sentenced in the first-degree murder of Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer.

Jury at trial of man accused of killing Cmdr. Paul Bauer views photographs of crime scene

March 5, 2020 at 4:26 p.m.

Before the third day of testimony at the trial of the man accused in the fatal shooting of Cmdr. Paul Bauer, the judge overseeing the case issued a warning from...

Cook County judge caught on video taking young girl into holding cell reassigned indefinitely

March 5, 2020 at 7:03 a.m.

The judge caught on video marching a young girl into the holding cell behind her courtroom last month has been assigned to administrative duties until further notice, according to Chief...

Routine policing touched off events that led to Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer’s death, officer testifies

March 4, 2020 at 7:34 p.m.

The chain of events that led to Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer's killing began with cops on an everyday patrol blocks away, driving on a grimy stretch of Lower Wacker...

Trial for killing of police Cmdr. Paul Bauer opens with claim of self-defense opposing the image of an ‘executed’ Chicago hero

March 3, 2020 at 7:40 p.m.

One of the most high-profile police murder trials in recent Chicago history opened Tuesday with lawyers giving jurors two starkly different views of the two figures at the center of...

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

Lawyers for R. Kelly challenge New York charges that stem from 1943 law on sexually transmitted diseases

March 2, 2020 at 5:22 p.m.

Some of the federal charges against R. Kelly are based on an aging law that makes it illegal for people to have sex if they know they have a sexually...

A police sergeant stands guard outside the Thompson Center after the fatal shooting of Cmdr. Paul Bauer on Feb. 13, 2018, in Chicago.

Man accused of killing Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer readies unusual self-defense claim

March 2, 2020 at 12:00 a.m.

It was midday on a Tuesday in the bustling Loop, and eyes were everywhere. Office workers on the sidewalks, a slew of security cameras and pursuing cops all saw Cmdr....

R. Kelly lawyers seek dismissal of racketeering charges against singer in New York

February 28, 2020 at 2:52 p.m.

Lawyers for embattled singer R. Kelly said in a court filing Friday the federal racketeering charge brought against him in New York is a thinly veiled attempt to circumvent the...

Amtrak police Officer LaRoyce Tankson, center, arrives with his attorney William Fahy, right, at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. Tankson, who was charged with murder for allegedly shooting a fleeing unarmed man, was found not guilty.

Amtrak police officer found not guilty of murder in 2017 shooting of unarmed man at Union Station

February 28, 2020 at 5:55 p.m.

A Cook County judge on Friday acquitted an Amtrak police officer of first-degree murder in the fatal on-duty shooting of an unarmed man, saying the officer reasonably believed he was...

Videotaped incident showing Cook County judge leaving child alone in a cell may have been ‘scared straight’ attempt

February 27, 2020 at 6:41 p.m.

A Cook County judge captured on video leaving a young girl locked in a holding cell alone behind her courtroom may have done so in a "scared straight" type of...

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