Maya Dukmasova, Author at Injustice Watch

Maya Dukmasova

Maya is a senior reporter at Injustice Watch covering judges and the courts. Before joining the organization in 2021 she was a senior staff writer at the Chicago Reader, where she began working in 2016. Maya was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia and immigrated to the U.S. at the age of nine. She’s lived in Chicago since 2013.

Judicial Elections

Toni Preckwinkle sits in the foreground in a green jacket, while Joanne Fehn stands at a lecturn in the large and airy IBEW Local 134 union hall

Judicial hopefuls seek Cook County Democratic Party’s endorsement for 2022 primary

By Maya Dukmasova and Chloe Hilles | October 15, 2021

A diverse lineup of judicial candidates courted the party’s central committee at the obscure “pre-slating” event.

Judicial Elections

Ald. Howard Brookins (21st Ward), who is planning to run in the next Cook County judicial election, in June 2022.

Chicago Ald. Howard Brookins Jr. eyeing a run for Cook County judge

By Maya Dukmasova | October 13, 2021

“I’ve been splitting my time between the practice of law and being a city council member, and I have never been one to think that I would die in office,” Brookins said.

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Camera footage released by the city from the scene of a botched 2012 burglary that left one suspect dead and two others seriously wounded.

Chicago may finally pay $1 million to estate of man cops killed in botched burglary

By Maya Dukmasova | September 30, 2021

The Illinois Appellate Court ordered Chicago to pay nearly $1 million to the estate of David Strong. He was killed in a 2012 police shooting after cops fired 75 shots at a stolen van he and two accomplices used trying to flee the scene of an attempted burglary.

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After 34 years, a murder conviction quietly reversed in 4 minutes

By Maya Dukmasova | September 15, 2021

James Allen, convicted of three murders on scant evidence, remains a long way from freedom.