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Judge’s ‘highly offensive’ remarks cited as new trial ordered in attempted murder case

May 22, 2019 at 10:36 p.m.

An Illinois appeals court has blasted a Cook County judge and prosecutor for their handling of an attempted murder case in which three Chicago police officers were injured by gunfire...

Jose Cruz, whose brother was killed in the 1990s, testifies during the resentencing of Jacqueline Montanez at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago on Oct. 14, 2016.

Woman sentenced to life as a juvenile now given 63-year prison term

May 22, 2019 at 10:36 p.m.

As Jacqueline Montanez stood Friday in a packed Cook County courtroom, her blue pantsuit didn't cover the tattoos on her arms and neck, markers of a gang life that began...

Witness at center of identical twin’s confession says his story a lie

May 22, 2019 at 10:45 p.m.

It could have been a scene taken from the old "Perry Mason" TV series. Karl Smith testified last month at the Leighton Criminal Court Building that he — not his...

Man accused of attacking officers was in court that same day for similar incident

May 22, 2019 at 10:44 p.m.

The man who's accused of severely beating two Chicago police officers Wednesday had appeared in court earlier that same day on strikingly similar charges involving an attack on a suburban...

Mother charged with locking son in closet, beating him over 2 years

May 22, 2019 at 10:33 p.m.

The mother of a 7-year-old boy often kept him locked in a closet, beat him repeatedly over a two-year period and fed him only sporadically, Cook County prosecutors allege. Prosecutors...

Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez listens to questions from the media on March 8, 2016, at the Leighton Criminal Court building in Chicago. The sudden and confusing end to the perjury trial for three police officers marked another embarrassment for the outgoing State's Attorney.

Prosecutors abruptly drop perjury charges against 3 cops, plan to re-indict

May 22, 2019 at 10:40 p.m.

In a stunning development, Cook County prosecutors on Thursday abruptly dropped all charges against three police officers shortly after the start of their perjury trial when the officers' lawyers alleged...

Officer who shot Laquan McDonald tries again to get teen’s juvenile records

May 22, 2019 at 10:32 p.m.

Attorneys for the Chicago police officer charged in the killing of Laquan McDonald have asked the judge presiding over that case for access to McDonald's juvenile records a month after...

New charges in boy’s killing after wrongfully convicted man is freed

May 22, 2019 at 10:39 p.m.

Osborne Wade lived near an abandoned Chicago garage where the body of a 6-year-old boy was found in 1992 under a pile of debris. The boy was the victim of...

Inmate freed after nearly 25 years in prison when DNA clears him in boy’s killing

May 22, 2019 at 10:39 p.m.

Two decades after the brutal murder and sexual assault of a 6-year-old boy shocked Chicago's Roseland neighborhood, new DNA evidence led a Cook County judge Tuesday to throw out the...

Donna Hollinger, left, the mother of murder victim Carrie Hovel, weeps at the Leighton Criminal Court Building on Sept. 27, 2016, after the natural life sentence that Eric Anderson received for the 1995 double killing of Hovel and her friend was reduced.

Judge limits resentence of killer to 60-year maximum prison term

May 22, 2019 at 10:38 p.m.

For the past 20 years, Donna Hollinger has driven to her daughter's grave at St. Mary's Cemetery in Evergreen Park at least twice a week. Her only child, 13-year-old Carrie...

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