Public defenders told the I-Team "Top Cop" Illinois State Police Trooper Kevin Bradley copied and pasted findings in arrest reports spanning years.
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A court general order and new state law have not stopped ICE from increasingly staking out Chicago area courthouses for arrests since February. Sightings of federal agents near court continue this week as “processing” of detainees at Broadview has accelerated.
After he was tortured in El Salvador and one of his family members was killed, M.G. sought refuge in the United States. The Convention Against Torture was supposed to make sure he didn’t go back. But he was deported — and no one has heard from him since.
Cook County Public Defender, Sharone R. Mitchell says the Pretrial Fairness Acts has impacted the clients our office represents.
Illinois abolished cash bail and drove down the population at the Cook County jail. Under the county’s top prosecutor, it’s rising again.
The Cook County public defender’s office had already laid the groundwork to represent individuals in immigration cases, but an increase in detention under the Trump administration last year forced them to adjust.
As a young frontline public defender in the courtroom, Sharone R. Mitchell, Jr., often imagined how the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender could better serve its constituents. Now, as the agency’s head, he’s realizing that vision.
A pair of Illinois bills seeks to clarify the language in that statute, aiming to ensure that after program completion, judges can issue sentence credit, whether it was completed in a state prison or a county jail.
Keshia Golden says she fatally stabbed Calvin Sidney in 2022 when he attacked her after their baby shower. Now a mother to a 3-year-old, Golden still faces murder charges in a case her lawyers argue amounts to self-defense.
Twice-yearly driver’s license reinstatement expos connect motorists with lawyers and advocates working to restore their driving privileges and relieving hardships.