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Authorities close 'sex trafficking house of horrors'
Tribune reporterCook County prosecutors announced charges today in connection with a sex trafficking ring in suburban Schiller Park that preyed on poor or homeless women who were forced into prostitution through drug addiction and violence. At a press conference, State&...Tags: Prostitution, Lawyers, Heroin, Sex Crimes, Schiller Park
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Trial opens in 2009 escape of bank robbery suspect
After quietly slipping out of three sets of restraints and snatching the gun from one of two law enforcement officers taking him to court in 2009, Robert Maday launched a two-day crime spree with a chilling threat, federal prosecutors alleged Wednesday at...
Tags: Lawyers, Theft, Kankakee, First American Bank, South Loop
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Anita Alvarez' letter to CBS
Change of SubjectResponding to this kind of criticism, Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez released the following letter: Again, all the context in the world doesn't rehabilitate an exchange like this: 60 Minutes correspondent Byron Pitts: You find out years... -
Innocence Project responds to Anita Alvarez' response to `60 Minutes'
Change of SubjectInnocence Project co-director Peter Neufeld has emailed me his response to the open letter Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez sent to complain about a report on last Sunday's broadcast about false confessions in Chicago: What I am most concerned..... -
Weeks in review
Change of SubjectA roundup of state and local news-review and weekly political chat shows. Descriptions provided by the broadcast outlets in most cases: Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review: Host Joel Weisman with - Mary Mitchell, Chicago Sun-Times - Mary Ann Ahern,...... -
Cook County State's Attorney Alvarez humiliates herself on national TV
Change of SubjectTonight, CBS' "60 Minutes" devoted a segment to false confessions in Chicago, focusing on two particularly egregious cases in which young men were convicted and imprisoned for rape and murder on the strength of confessions they said were coerced. The........ -
Oh, the irony!
Change of SubjectDNA evidence isn't good enough for Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, except when it is: Man is charged in 23-year-old killing: Michael A. Escort, who was already serving time for another crime, was charged with one count of first-degree...... -
From the 'Never Thought I'd See The Day' file
Change of SubjectDaley nephew indicted in '04 death of David Koschman A special Cook County grand jury indicted former Mayor Richard Daley's nephew on a charge of involuntary manslaughter in the death of David Koschman in a drunken confrontation on the city’s...... -
Listen up! Courts are telling Illinois to fix its eavesdropping law
Change of Subject"Is that recording?" asked Lindenhurst police officer Ralph Goar, referring to a pocket video camera resting on the dashboard of motorist Louis Frobe. It was the night of Aug. 15, 2010, and Goar had pulled Frobe over for allegedly driving...... -
Exhumation of poisoned lottery winner proceeds
Tribune reporterCook County authorities continue to move toward exhuming the body of a Chicago man who died of cyanide poisoning weeks after winning a $1 million lottery jackpot. Cook County prosecutors are drafting court papers and expect a judge to hear the matter on...Tags: Urooj Khan, Medical Research, Lawyers, Lotteries, Justice System
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Grand jury subpoenas issued in Maine West hazing scandal
Tribune reporterGrand jury subpoenas in the Cook County state’s attorney’s investigation of alleged hazing on athletic teams at Maine West High School in Des Plaines have been issued, sources confirm. Although no one could say who received the subpoenas,...Tags: Lawyers, Justice System, Des Plaines, Crime, Law and Justice, Hazing
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Surprise in Koschman case -- well-connected suspect charged
This doesn’t happen in Chicago: the nephew of former Mayor Richard Daley facing a charge of involuntary manslaughter in a case that was either ignored or bungled by local cops and local prosecutors for years. Not in the Chicago many of us know, not...
Tags: Trials, Lawyers, Chicago Tribune, Richard M. Daley, Justice System
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Nov 27, 2012
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Dec 3, 2012
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