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Cook County circuit judges will decide on Thursday whether to give Timothy C. Evans, the longest-tenured chief judge in county history, another term. Circuit judge Lorna Propes is seeking to unseat him by appealing, in large part, to judges’ unhappiness with the negative attention some who were running for retention last year received.
Two Illinois Department of Corrections officers accused in lawsuit of civil rights violations against a transgender woman publicly shared memes or other posts that mocked members of the L.G.B.T.Q. community. A third officer, not named in the suit, posted a Facebook meme disapproving of homosexuality, among other troubling posts.
The case of former Empire star Jussie Smollett case now in hands of former U.S. Attorney Daniel K. Webb. As special prosecutor, Webb will both review the controversial decision to drop charges, as well as whether charges could be re-instituted.
A St. Louis judge rejected a motion by the city’s top prosecutor to overturn a murder conviction based on the prosecutors’ conclusion that an innocent man was convicted. The judge’s opinion found several apparent conflicts of interest by the prosecutors’ office; but, the defense noted, said nothing about the facts that the prosecutors’ office said proved the prisoner is innocent.
Lamonte McIntyre spent 23 years in prison for a double murder before, in 2017, a court hearing established a mountain of evidence that he was wrongly convicted. But the state attorney general is not acknowledging McIntyre’s wrongful conviction, blocking McIntyre from compensation that it appeared the governor assured him would be paid.
The state agency that decides on discipline agreed Wednesday that DuPage County Circuit Judge Patrick O’Shea violated the judicial code when he told falsehoods and when he retaliated against women who complained about his conduct. The question left hanging is hat discipljine the Illiinois Courtss Commission will impose.
In day 2 of Court Commission hearings that could lead to his removal from office, DuPage County Judge Patrick O”Shea took the stand and contradicted the testimony of his accusers. The hearings are expected to conclude Wednesday.
In 2018, Matthew Coghlan became the first Cook County circuit judge to lose a retention election in 28 years, and one contributing factor was a lawsuit accusing him of framing two innocent men. In newly-filed papers, Coghlan contends he did no such thing and should be dropped from the lawsuit.
DuPage judge faces rare potential discipline over behavior: State contends he lied to police, harassed court staff and retaliated if they complained.
The Missouri Attorney General’s office this week rebuked arguments from the city of St. Louis Circuit Attorney, defense attorneys and more than 40 prosecutors across the country, contending in a legal brief that a local judge has no right to consider vacating a conviction of a prisoner the prosecutor says is innocent.