Posted on 07/03/2022 10:39:05 PM PDT by texas booster
Once again, allegations raise the question: Who does Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx work for?
Calling her conduct “reminiscent” of the Jussie Smollett scandal, a Chicago-area attorney is accusing Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx of illegally denying defendants access to key files in a federal lawsuit.
This time, however, the allegations of misconduct do not arise from an offender falsely claiming he was attacked by racist Trump supporters, à la the Jussie Smollett case. Rather, this case surrounds one of the most infamous crimes in the state’s history, the 1982 murders of Chicago Police Officers William Fahey and Richard O’Brien.
The February 1982 murders of Fahey and O’Brien were the high point in a month in which five officers were gunned down, four fatally. In the shooting deaths of Officers O’Brien and Fahey during a traffic stop on a cold February afternoon in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, Andrew and Jackie Wilson were ultimately convicted of the crime. Since their conviction and sentencing, both Wilsons have been transformed from vicious killers into icons of the radical left. This evolution from cold-blooded murderers to victimhood resurrection was due in part because Andrew Wilson had been physically assaulted by an officer while in custody.
Despite the fact a distraught officer inflicted bodily harm on Andrew Wilson after a fourth coworker had been gunned down, the guilt of the Wilsons for the murders of Fahey and O’Brien was never questioned by any legal body. The Wilson brothers lost every appeal and legal attempt to overturn their convictions, until the state legislature created the Illinois Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission (TIRC). A body with broad, arbitrary powers to overturn long-settled criminal cases, in one of the most disturbing and despicable actions of the exoneration industry, the commission overturned Jackie Wilson’s conviction. Afterwards, the retrial in the courtroom of notoriously anti-police Judge William Hooks was reduced to a kind of circus culminating with special prosecutors abruptly dropping charges midway through the trial.
Virtually any convicted killer from Chicago, even one who murdered a police officer, is now sitting in his cell musing about the possibility of a pathway to freedom created by TIRC, just as Wilson and a long list of others have.
Jackie Wilson, whose brother died in 2007 while in prison, has brought his innocence claims into federal court, where his lawyers have accused a long list of defendants, including former mayor Richard Daley, county prosecutors, and deceased detectives, of misconduct against Wilson. Wilson is now seeking a multimillion-dollar payday.
However, Wilson’s seemingly easy path to a settlement has encountered a series of obstacles, largely through the work of attorney Edward Theobald, who is representing one of the accused former prosecutors in the case, Lawrence Hyman. Theobald has challenged the constitutionality of TIRC, which paved the way for Wilson’s release. Theobald is also questioning why Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, a sponsor of the legislation that created TIRC, intervened in Wilson’s lawsuit and claimed Hyman had no legal standing to challenge TIRC.
What problem does an attorney general have in a constitutional review of TIRC? Why would his administration seek to impede such a review? Why would Raoul, an attorney general, intervene in a federal lawsuit surrounding the murder of two police officers in a manner that would help the once-convicted offender?
Theobald cites a suspicious pattern of both Raoul claiming they have a conflict when it comes to addressing issues surrounding Wilson that might help the defense, but then intervening on his federal lawsuit when it might help Wilson. Both Raoul and Foxx, for example, claimed they also couldn’t prosecute Wilson after he was arrested several months ago for a brutal attack on a woman with whom he engaged in sex, according to Theobald (Wilson’s arrest for the attack was never covered by any Chicago media outlet).
Yet at the same time both Raoul and Foxx have claimed a conflict surrounding Wilson’s lawsuit and his arrest, they each have intervened in Wilson’s federal lawsuit. Raoul has argued Theobald’s client has no standing to question the constitutionality of TIRC. In his latest broadside against Foxx, Theobald cites the fact that Foxx asserted a conflict with her office representing accused prosecutors in Wilson’s federal lawsuit, then intervened on the lawsuit when Theobald demanded files and documents from Foxx’s office. Declaring Foxx’s actions reminiscent of her conduct in the Jussie Smollett mess, Theobald assailed Foxx in a recent motion:
"Conflicted KIM FOXX hiring other attorneys, with County funds, to oppose a duly appointed Special Cook County State’s Attorney’s requests for files is reminiscent of FOXX’s involvement in the Jussie Smollett debacle. Thus, conflicted State’s Attorney KIM FOXX once again disregards her oath of office, this time to undermine the duly appointed 2 Special Cook County State’s Attorney, by attempting to sabotage Mr. Hyman’s defense by withholding needed records."
Foxx’s conduct in the Wilson case is shaping up to be the crowning scandal in her tenure as the county's chief prosecutor, yet another sign that Foxx works on behalf of the exoneration industry, not the people of Cook County. An administration in shambles, top prosecutors have fled time and again and Cook County State's Attorney employees are also describing staff shortages. Foxx has been caught tossing falsehoods in cases over and over and has released convicted killers who her own prosecutors believed were guilty. Now Foxx is facing an attorney who has launched a barrage of criticism at her for withholding key files to provide a defense.
Of all the Soros-backed prosecutors across the nation, Foxx has proven to be the most catastrophic, yet the backlash against these prosecutors in other cities is far more pronounced. In San Francisco, voters threw out Soros backed prosecutor Chesa Boudin out of office.
But what is perhaps most chilling, most dangerous about her tenure is the shield of protection Foxx receives from Chicago media. Theobald’s legal broadsides against Foxx, Raoul, and the TIRC commission, along with Wilson’s arrest for an alleged brutal beating of a woman, have remain deliberately ignored by Chicago’s media, just as the media, particularly the Chicago Tribune, has remained silent about legal attacks on exoneration cases throughout the federal courts.
The Chicago media has become the “useful idiots” to the exoneration mythology and its advocates like Foxx. A collective effort, this undertaking to protect Foxx has transformed Chicago’s reporters into a collection of trained seals similar to what is found at a SeaWorld performance.
It is this breakdown of the independent press in Chicago that most spells Chicago’s doom by allowing elected officials like Kim Foxx and Kwame Raoul to “re-imagine” the criminal justice system, quickly turning into a city nightmare.
... That she LOUDLY banged on relentlessly about "Police Accountability & Reform. "
(While her "oppressed" communerty of neighborhoodians voter base has been doing their thang for the last 50+ years)
Which is nothing more than the communist/lefty-liberal destructionists fantasy of installing de facto and de jure "police duty to retreat" from observing/investigating, pursuing/arresting violent street criminals along with actually enforcing laws that enshrine and promulgate the ideas and ideals of Public Order, Public Peace and Public Safety as being the hallmarks of a healthy, thriving and passingly civilized and passingly habitable municipal incorporation.
Which is the very thing that the City of Chicago has CEASED being many years ago.
All by deliberate design to make the eee-vil huwite supreme racist POLICE leave the "oppressed" ceaselessly seething, resentful and vengeful, breath-takingly hateful and violent excuse-making community of neighborhoodians alone and stop subjecting them to the huwite supreme racism of Public Order, Public Peace and Public Safety along with the "racist" socially acceptable behaviors that pivot on the bedrock/revered (in MOST Western cultural and societal settings) Judeo-Christian ethos/values that Western Civilization cannot survive without...
Remember, some knuckleheaded communerty neighborhoodian spokes-weasel went on a rant saying: "If'n WE can't have peace an' safety (from each other) then Y'ALL can't have peace an' safety (from US) either!"
Or is unbuckling and unfastening Western Civilization to shove it into the abyss - what the loudly yowling, perpetually inflamed and outraged, non-contributory adult children are actively attempting to accomplish?
The only ones who are ending up truly sad, sick, sore and sorry over the controlled demolition of Chicago by Mayor Sir/Ma'am, Cabrini Kim, Toni The Crazy Cat-Lady and the rest of the leftist cabal; are the upright and law-abiding people who pay the high-as-a-southbound flying goose's @$$ - freight that makes Chicago go, are the very much trod-upon Chicago tax-serfs.
We are watching in real time the destruction of another of our major cities. And who will pick up the pieces?
Maybe a multi-national or other company that loves itself some real estate in its portfolio.
George Soros, you big silly.
In San Francisco, voters threw out Soros backed prosecutor Chesa Boudin out of office.
Yes, but they didn’t replace Boudin with a non-nutter. The Mayor will appoint a successor to serve until next year’s election, but I don’t expect that person to be much different.
Hopefully, this time the hounds will get the Foxx.
He will probably win.
If you are a white cop in chicago, you are a slave to the protected class of dark skinned humans in that city.
She’s a BLACK WOMAN DEMOCRAT......NOTHING will happen to her!
There are plenty of Black women Democrats in jail. Far more than any other race. They commit more crimes than anyone else.
“I don’t expect that person to be much different.”
Hopefully they will not be the spawn of Communist terrorists, that alone will be an improvement.
What passes for “moderate” in San Francisco (the candidate that lost to Boudin) is a disciple of the Communist Whore Vice-Puppet, who herself broke records as the worst District Attorney in America (and later, worst Attorney General).
Their end goal, of course, is a complete breakdown in civil society and then to implement their complete totalitarian Stalinazi state in its place to override our Constitution. Boudin was just paving the way for the former so he could achieve the latter. Soft on crime now, ruthless mass murderer later.
Dan Lipinksi is thinking of running for IL-6 as an Indie. Do you think that would help or hurt our chances?
BTW, I could have sworn that Bill Lipinski was his UNCLE not his father which apparently he is. Mandela effect?
Depends on how much appeal Lipinski has there. If he raises enough money to appeal to Dems, it might help the GOP. Frankly, after being jettisoned over abortion, he might be better off switching parties and moving rightward.
He says in the farticle he wrote about “both sides bad” that the GOP asked him to run and he said no.
Well, both parties in IL are bad and corrupt (and in bed together). They should poll the district and see what kind of effect his candidacy has.
He wasn’t talking about the state parties and he was whining about how both sides are “extreme” (he’s half right) and bemoaned that only 13 RINOS voted for Biden’s pork bill and that Mary Miller beat his pal (I guess) Rodney Davis.
He’s a “centrist”, the only positive sign in the article is that he used the term woke in a negative fashion.
Frankly he sounds like all the RINO pigs out there.
I remember very well when Bill Lipinski announced after the filing deadline that he would retire, and then (in his capacity as alderman or ward leader something like that of a ward within his CD) insisted that his son Dan, who was a political-science professor at the University of Tennessee, be the substitute Democrat nominee. When some of the other ward leaders stated that there were some other candidates in the district who had been waiting their turn to run, Bill replied “you don’t understand; if you don’t select Dan as the replacement nominee, I’ll withdraw my retirement.” Bill Lipinski made damn sure that his son inherited his seat.
I did see on Twitter that people were saying that Bill was Dan’s uncle, not father, so obviously you’re not the only one who has that mistaken memory. The Mandela Effect indeed. (For the record, I never thought that Mandela had died in prison and have no idea why people swear that they remember hearing that, but I certainly do remember a movie poster or something for a movie in which Sinbad played a genie, and I was shocked to learn that there never was any such movie. The only explanation is that someone has been fooling with the Matrix.)
As for whom a Dan Lipinski indie run would hurt the most, I would think that it would be the GOP nominee, Mayor Keith Pekau. Pro-abortion but otherwise moderate Democrats would have no qualms about voting for Sean Casten instead of Dan Lipinski, and those pro-life Democrats that Lipinski would nab are exactly the voters that Pekau would need to defeat Casten, and Lipinski also would take some independent votes from Pekau. Had moonbat Marie Newman won the RAT nomination, there would have been a reasonable chance that Lipinski would take a lot of moderate Democrat votes away from her (and some from Pekau), making it a competitive three-way race, but I don’t see a path to victory for Pekau against Casten if Lipinski is there as an escape valve for pro-life Democrats. A one-on-one race between Pekau and Casten, however, would be potentially winnable for Pekau due to the toxic electoral environment for Democrats and the likely support for Pekau from Lipinski Democrats.
” if you don’t select Dan as the replacement nominee, I’ll withdraw my retirement.””
I didn’t know that. That’s why should have to actually be a vacancy first (Bill Lipinski, irrevocably withdrawing from the ballot).
” Sinbad played a genie,”
Hmm yes, Shaq was the star of “Kazaam”.
Human memory is stupid so if we discount the possibility that we are shifting between different quantum universes (....) then there must be a reason why so many people think Mandela died in prison ( he should have gotten the death penalty, along with his wife, for being terrorists and murderers) but I’ll be damned if I know what it is, conflating it with something else? A false news report?
For me and Lipinski I think I must have heard at the time, falsely, that it was the nephew, and just never checked.
A big Mandela for me (and many others) is I could have sworn that in “Moonraker” Jaw’s little girlfriend had braces and they even had a kissing scene where they stuck together. There are conspiracies about altered footage.
But I guess the sole crux of the humor was just the size disparity between them (missed opportunity).
And there is commercial with Richard Kiel and and a blonde with braces!! I guess people get it from that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BhLAWP7jGA&t=36s&ab_channel=konnu
The “braces sticking together” must be conflated from some other movie or show.
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