Injustice Watch (https://www.injusticewatch.org/)
Omar Williams was detained for five years, eight months and twelve days on charges of murder. In less than two hours, 12 jurors acquitted him. Williams’s case offered a striking view of just how slowly Cook County’s wheels of justice can move, how askew justice can go and the toll it can take on the lives of those caught up in the system.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions tells an audience in Miami that Chicago’s high murder rate and immigration policy are connected. He tells Chicagoans to call Mayor Rahm Emanuel or face a cutoff in federal grant money.
A rare display unfolded in the criminal courthouse last week when a prosecutor angrily charged a judge had wrongly held a pregnant woman in custody without a prompt hearing.
When respected law professor Albert Alschuler said renowned federal appeals court judge Frank Easterbrook engaged in “eight whoppers” in a high-profile case, Injustice Watch undertook a review of the judge’s other cases. The result: A pattern of misrepresenting facts: Misstatements, omissions and wrong assumptions.
Commentary
A fitting legacy for Dick Gregory and J. Edgar Hoover
The death of Dick Gregory caused Rob Warden to recall how low J. Edgar Hoover would stoop.