Chicago should be very proud....it found the Missing Link....and made it State's Attorney.
Posted on 04/20/2019 7:47:51 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In a city that already has more than enough problems to deal with, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is quickly turning into the gift that keeps on giving. The latest report coming out of the Windy City indicates that Foxx’s decision to “recuse” herself from the Jussie Smollett case and appoint her chief deputy in her place was contrary to ethics rules. What’s worse, both the deputy and her office’s chief ethics officer not only knew it, but had drawn up documents to request a special prosecutor, as should have been done. But Foxx ignored the rules and appointed Joseph Magats anyway. (NY Post)
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Two spokeswomen for Foxx’s office — Tandra Simonton and Kiera Ellis — had claimed Wednesday that their boss was never informed by her staff that it would be unethical to name an underling, First Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph Magats, to oversee the case.
But a law-enforcement source told The Post on Friday that was not true.
First, the department’s chief ethics officer, April Perry, and Magats himself sought legal advice on the move and even prepared the proper documents calling for an outside special prosecutor after they were told Magats didn’t have the authority to take over for Foxx, according to an e-mail obtained through a public-records request.
Foxx was then informed of the snafu in her plan to appoint her man, Magats, the source said.
So Foxx had sent out her spokespeople to tell the press she had no idea it would be against the rules to appoint Magats. But we now know that she either knew all along or is so incompetent that she shouldn’t hold that job. If Magats himself...
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So now they can legally re-instate the charges against Smollett?
Chicago should be very proud....it found the Missing Link....and made it State's Attorney.
My guess is Kim Foxx has ridden the affirmative action train her whole life. It is showing now.
I told you originally it would amount tobe nothing. This supports the Democratic Crime syndicates position and Chicago is one of their strong holds.
Smollett is the least of it.
“So now they can legally re-instate the charges against Smollett?”
If anyone were so inclined, most likely. Illinois Law is quite specific on how recusals are to be handled. Paperwork must be filed with the Court and Prosecutors from outside the County are to be brought in.
The Illinois Prosecutors Bar Association laid it all out here: http://www.ilpba.org/announcements/7249825
The problem is that no one has so blatantly tossed all of this out the window before. It’s a new low even by Cook County standards.
Could it happen? Sure. A troop of rabid Howler Monkeys could fly out of my butt, too. Will it happen? Sadly, I doubt it. This is just one more outrage from the rude joke that is the Cook County Criminal Justice System. And the decent people, yes there are some, are suffering from severe cases of Outrage Fatigue.
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That entire office needs to go under the microscope.
Which is likely why so many employees have bailed or are bailing..
Of course they can - no trial, no double jeopardy...
Thanks for the link. At this point, I’m thinking the case could - ironically - be dismissed just on the prosecutorial misconduct.
Good grief....now that is the definition of ugly.....and a liberal lying leftist also....makes it even uglier...
“Thanks for the link.”
My pleasure. Glad you found it interesting.
“I’m thinking the case could - ironically - be dismissed just on the prosecutorial misconduct.”
On the face of it, yes. But I’m not a lawyer and what research I have done has left me unable to find any legal mechanism for doing that. Maybe someone from the IBPA will step up and get things rolling.
But this being Illinois I’m not hopeful. I’ve lived here since 1972 and if I’ve learned anything it’s that there is absolutely nothing that surprises me anymore.
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Trump supporters should bring a class action suit against the Chicago thugs... and the Hollywood thug, and the corrupt press that covered for the monster... We can split the money we ‘win’ with the Chicago cops...
Remember the old line from the blues song “I’m gonna squeeze that silver dollar ‘til the eagle screams”?
Well I think before this is all over Foxx is going to squeeze her Obama “Get Out of Jail Free” race card until the embossing is pressed as thinly tight as parchment.
I see some of these minorities and wonder how the hell did they get into college, pass their courses and actually graduate...
I suppose there's "affirmative grading" as well....
We don’t have to look any closer. The woman is an unapologetic racist, and approves of Jussie’s effort to frame an unfavorable story against whites.
Can they charge him with things he wasn’t charged for previously?
Sure it smells. It smells to the high heavens. What the hell did Michele Obama have to get into it for? Why did Kim Foxx who recused herself have to get back into it for? There is too much wrong with dropping the charges against Smollett. Let a special prosecutor get into it, despite Smollett lawyers objections. The very fact that they object is all the more reason to get a special prosecutor involved.
I can’t see why not...might have to run another Grand Jury though.
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