State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s Conviction Integrity Unit hasn’t exonerated anyone in her 10 months on the job, and she has done little to confront more than a dozen coercion allegations against a former Chicago police detective and his partners. The post Cook County’s new prosecutor has weakened an already broken system for freeing the innocent appeared first on Injustice Watch.| Injustice Watch
The Cook County State’s Attorney is pushing for funding to establish an in-house forensics lab. There are several reasons this is a bad idea. The post The Results Are In: Forensic Labs Under Prosecutorial Control Are Problematic appeared first on Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts.| Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts
Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has decided to scrap her office's do-not-call and disclosure lists, which call out problematic and dishonest cops, and we have serious concerns. Do-not-call and disclosure lists include the names of discredited officers who can't be trusted to testify truthfully. This decision increases the likelihood of constitutional violations and wrongful convictions—especially in Chicago, where the issue of dishonest police in court ("testilying") i...| Chicago Appleseed Center for Fair Courts