Cook County prosecutors agreed to the dismissal of 20 convictions connected to notorious ex-Chicago police Sgt. Ronald Watts and his crew.
, and indicated they would oppose efforts to throw out another 15 cases, attorneys said in court Tuesday.
“This is integral to public safety, I cannot say it enough,” she said. “We ask every day for members of the community to step up and work with us … if they don’t believe the system is fair and just and in fact that the system is designed to hurt them, they won’t help us, and we need them.” Watts and his crew of tactical officers have been accused of orchestrating a lengthy reign of terror at the now-razed Ida B. Wells public housing complex on the South Side, systematically forcing residents and drug dealers alike to pay a “protection” tax and putting bogus cases on those who refused to do so.
Prosecutors are committed to reviewing each case separately, rather than simply throwing out all cases with any connection to the crew, Foxx told reporters. “Each one of these people has presented the same evidence of innocence,” said Joel Flaxman, who represents several of the people whose cases were heard Tuesday. “... We’re going to be back in court on each one of the cases, and I hope that we’ll be able to convince the state’s attorney. Failing that, we will have hearings where we convince a judge of the innocence of all our clients.”
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