Posted on 04/20/2019 4:58:20 AM PDT by Libloather
Two top staffers for Cook County States Attorney Kim Foxx are resigning following the offices decision to drop 16 charges against actor Jussie Smollett, who is suspected of having staged a hate crime against himself.
According to the Chicago Tribune, chief ethics officer April Perry and special prosecutor Mark Rotert, who leads the Conviction Integrity Unit, will step down on May 3.
In a statement to HuffPost, Foxx praised Rotert for making the unit a national model, noting that during his tenure, we have vacated the convictions of over 70 wrongfully convicted men and women.
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Amazing.
The real question is did they break any laws dropping the charges on SMollett when they did not have the actual authority to do so?
Rats leaving the ship.
They don’t wanna testify...
These Chicago Democrats are making Al Capone look like a choir boy.
You went all out to say “overbite”, didn’t ‘ya?
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Before I resigned, I’d bring charges and attempt a removal .... Resigning just stops feeding your family, but the bitch goes on.
Prominent supraorbital ridge.
Maybe I’m not understanding the whole thing, but aren’t the wrong people resigning? The Ethics lady who warned Foxx is leaving, I believe, but Foxx remains ...?
You talk about “obstruction of justice”, she’s the poster child.
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