In the continuing saga of the largest scandal in Chicago Police Department history, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office dug in Tuesday on the convictions of nearly 40 individuals who said they were framed by corrupt Sgt. Ronald Watts and the officers he supervised at the former Ida B. Wells housing project.
In the filing, Rogala never explains why these cases are deemed any different than those which even State’s Attorney Kim Foxx has previously said deserved relief.
Defense attorneys have long noted that dozens of those arrested by Watts and his team made “instant outcries” against what they said were phony arrests that went unheeded by authorities at the time. Officials in the State’s Attorney’s office have not disputed that a raft of false arrests took place at the hands of Watts and his crew.
Indeed, while Watts and one other officer on his team were convicted and served federal prison terms, most of the remaining officers from his tactical unit have been told they are so tainted they will never be allowed to testify again in a Cook County case. “The state has requested that these cases proceed to an evidentiary hearing,” defense attorney Joshua Tepfer told NBC5 in a statement Tuesday evening. “If that is what the court orders, we are very prepared to present the testimony from the many, many victims of this notoriously corrupt unit of Chicago Police.”
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