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    Kim Foxx

    Kim Foxx is the Cook County State’s Attorney. She was born in Chicago and grew up in the Cabrini-Green housing project. She defeated incumbent Anita Alvarez in 2016.

    News
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    Three strikes for Cook County prosecutors

    By Maya Dukmasova | December 19, 2022

    Illinois’ prosecutor-initiated resentencing law was supposed to be a progressive policy win. So far, it’s yielded no winners.

    Events
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    6 takeaways from our community conversation about systemic issues in the Cook County courts

    By Maureen Dunne and Sky Patterson | September 16, 2022

    Injustice Watch convened a community conversation about systemic inequities in the Cook County courts and possible solutions last month, as part of The Circuit, our ongoing collaborative investigation into two decades of Cook County court data.

    The Circuit

    Hundreds more Black Chicagoans are pleading guilty to gun-possession charges. Here’s one possible reason why.

    By Josh McGhee | June 17, 2022

    As Chicago police have made more gun arrests, prosecutors are taking nearly all cases through the secretive grand jury process, where indictments are close to a sure thing.

    ACT UP

    The history and harm behind Illinois’s criminal HIV transmission law

    By Adam M. Rhodes (The Chicago Reader) | June 7, 2021

    Injustice Watch and the Chicago Reader examined the origins of Illinois’s HIV transmission law, how Cook County prosecutors have leveraged it, and its impacts on people charged. The investigation is part of The Circuit, a courts data project from Injustice Watch, the BGA, and DataMade.

    Police and Prosecutors

    Kim Foxx claims victory in Cook County State’s Attorney race, defeating Pat O’Brien

    By Kelly Bauer (Block Club Chicago), Jake Wittich (Block Club Chicago) and Jamie Nesbitt Golden (Block Club Chicago) | November 4, 2020

    Foxx has been an advocate of criminal justice reform and has said she wants to create a Chicago that is more equal.

    Coronavirus

    As coronavirus spreads in Cook County jail, 300 people have been released

    By Jonah Newman | March 25, 2020

    Data shows people are still being booked into the jail, even as 17 detainees and four correctional officers have tested positive so far for the virus that causes COVID-19.

    News

    Breaking: Former judges, prosecutors urge Illinois Supreme Court to reform bail

    By Injustice Watch Staff | July 9, 2018

    The state Supreme Court is urged to reform the bail system statewide, ensuring that defendants would not be held in custody awaiting trial only because of their poverty.

    News

    As Cook County Judge Coghlan seeks retention, concerns over lawsuit, rulings

    By Mari Cohen and Rick Tulsky | June 28, 2018

    Cook County judge Matthew Coghlan is among 62 Cook County judges who will ask voters to retain them for new terms in the November election. But Coghlan has some issues, including a current lawsuit contending he conspired with a disgraced Chicago police detective to frame two men for murder.

    Longreads

    Little hope of release for more than 160 Illinois juvenile offenders

    By Emily Hoerner and Jeanne Kuang | May 6, 2018

    Across the country, juvenile offenders are being released from prison based on recognition they are not as mature as adults. In Illinois, many who commit crimes as teenagers are still likely destined to die in custody.

    Cook County Judicial Primary Election March 2018

    Cook County judicial candidate, colleague misled jury into wrongful conviction

    By Mari Cohen | January 10, 2018

    Cook County judge said judicial candidate Michael Gerber and his co-counsel’s statements in a recently overturned conviction “amounted to a purposeful due process violation that led to petitioner’s conviction.”

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    Este artículo, publicado originalmente en inglés por Injustice Watch, está disponible en español gracias al proyecto "Traduciendo las noticias de Chicago", del Instituto de Noticias Sin Fines de Lucro (INN). Read in English.

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    2020 Judicial Primary Election Guide
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    13 states have never exonerated a prisoner based on DNA evidence. Here’s why.

    Hundreds of state prisoners have successfully used DNA evidence to win exonerations in the past three decades — except in 13 states. The states are Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Vermont.

    Cook County judicial candidate, colleague misled jury into wrongful conviction

    This is the first of a series of Injustice Watch reports on candidates and campaigning for the Cook County Circuit Court 2018 elections.  Longtime Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Gerber achieved his lifelong dream in December 2016 when the state Supreme Court appointed him to the Cook County Circuit Court, filling a vacancy. But as he now runs to win a full six-year term, Gerber faces a potential obstacle: Another Cook County judge has ruled that Gerber and a second prosecutor made false statements to a jury that led to a wrongful conviction.

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