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Report: Judging bail reform impossible because officials withhold key data
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The county judges and sheriff make meaningful review of bail reforms difficult by withholding key data, the Civic Federation reports.
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Five years of waiting in jail, then a quick jury acquittal
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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.