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13 Jan 2011, 8:39 am by Ed Yohnka, ACLU of Illinois
The Senate's action followed a long day of debate, beginning with an extraordinary hearing in the Senate's Judiciary Committee featuring a death row exoneree, the sister of a murder victim who argued for repealing the death penalty and two prominent state's attorneys, including Anita Alvarez, State's Attorney of Cook County. [read post]
27 Oct 2009, 7:26 am
“At the end of the day, all we’re seeking is the same thing these students are: justice and truth,” said Sally Daly, a spokeswoman for Anita Alvarez, the Cook County state’s attorney. [read post]
18 Jul 2016, 2:26 pm by mdkeenan
In April, 2015, Cook County Prosecutor Anita Alvarez announced that her office would no longer prosecute misdemeanor marijuana offenses. [read post]
8 Aug 2018, 3:30 pm
As I’ve written previously, the ousting of McCulloch comes after of the ousting of Anita Alvarez in Chicago and the ousting of Angela Corey in Florida. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 3:57 pm by Law Offices of David L. Freidberg, P.C.
The State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez has actually ordered those prosecuting felony gun possession cases to present them to grand juries rather than go before a judge in a preliminary hearing. [read post]
No criminal charges were ever filed against him and he should be back off of desk assignment soon.From Huffingtonpost.com:On Monday afternoon, Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez announced that she was taking a pass on criminally prosecuting a Chicago police officer who currently faces 34 federal lawsuits alleging that he cooked up phony DUI charges in a ploy to collect tens of thousands of dollars in overtime pay for appearing at court dates.After a high-profile… [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 6:53 pm by Jeff Gamso
He was freed a week and a half ago when State's Attorney Anita Alvarez concluded that his confession was coerced by lies and trickery and even an actor hired to pretend to have been a witness. [read post]
13 Jul 2018, 12:45 pm
In Chicago, BLM pressure led Anita Alvarez — who had inexplicably failed to charge police officers who shot at least 68 people to death — to lose her re-election bid for Cook County prosecutor. [read post]
24 Sep 2021, 4:46 am by Sami Azhari
The Offender Initiative Program is a new statute modeled after the deferred prosecution program developed by Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez. [read post]
18 Jan 2016, 4:13 am by Michael Rosenblat
How can Anita Alvarez the Cook County State’s Attorney restore the public trust in her office? [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 1:37 pm by Kent Scheidegger
  Jim Stingl has this story in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.Last week, Simon walked out of prison a free man after Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez announced that her office, after a yearlong investigation, was vacating the charges against him and ending his 37-year sentence.The investigation by the Innocence Project, she said, "involved a series of alarming tactics that were not only coercive and absolutely unacceptable by law enforcement standards, they… [read post]
24 Sep 2010, 8:22 pm
He said [name withheld], who works at a tire store, has been careful to stay out of trouble in hopes that Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez will OK a new round of DNA testing on semen found in the victim — the first round excluded him and his co-defendants, each of whom say their confessions to the rape and murder were false and coerced — that will identify the real killer and clear [name withheld]'s name. [read post]
9 Jun 2015, 3:42 pm by Theodore Harvatin
Cook County State Attorney Anita Alvarez announced that her office would stop prosecuting people for small amounts of marijuana. [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 4:30 am by SHG
Last week, Simon walked out of prison a free man after Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez announced that her office, after a yearlong investigation, was vacating the charges against him and ending his 37-year sentence. [read post]
28 Nov 2015, 7:58 am by John Floyd
  The case was turned over to Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez who apparently sat on the investigation for more than a year until November 25, 2015, when she announced that Van Dyke had been charged with first-degree murder. [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 3:51 am by SHG
In Chicago, voters rejected Anita Alvarez and replaced her with Kim Foxx. [read post]
13 Jan 2012, 8:26 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, who noted that her office has faced recent budget and staff cuts, added that “the cost that really is laid on local prosecutors is enormous. [read post]