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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]
7 Dec 2015, 1:27 pm
"... because Johnson had a gun, had resisted arrest and was running toward other cops and into a park, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez said Monday. [read post]
6 Dec 2015, 6:31 pm by Michael Lumer
Van Dyke is being charged with murder -- not because DA Anita Alvarez has any political backbone, but rather despite its absence. [read post]
6 Dec 2015, 6:31 pm by Michael Lumer
Van Dyke is being charged with murder -- not because DA Anita Alvarez has any political backbone, but rather despite its absence. [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]
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]
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]
Passage comes on the heels of a recent announcement made by Cook County state’s attorney Anita Alvarez that her office will no longer prosecute minor pot cases. [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 1:42 pm by Kent Scheidegger
" Those tactics, "were not only coercive and absolutely unacceptable by law-enforcement standards," Alvarez said, "they were potentially in violation of Mr. [read post]
31 Jan 2015, 8:24 pm
This project, that I’m also privileged to participate in, involves an Independent Commission of Experts comprised of Canadian Supreme Court Justice Ian Binnie, Alex Whiting at Harvard, Anita Ramasastry at the University of Washington and others. [read post]
14 Jan 2015, 5:57 am by SHG
State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez has said that “other viable options” could have been used to subdue Wrana other than the “violent extrication” chosen by Park Forest police. [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]
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]
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]
20 Aug 2014, 2:22 pm
According to Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, Illinois needs to relax marijuana laws and create tougher gun laws. [read post]
17 Mar 2013, 10:00 am by Megan Geuss
In 2010, the group brought a case against Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez, who had been prosecuting ACLU staff members for recording on-duty police officers. [read post]
1 Mar 2013, 6:41 am
According to reports, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez’s Office has recommended the county board agree to what would purportedly be the largest settlement in the history of Cook County. [read post]
29 Dec 2012, 8:35 am by Lewis Gainor
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]
31 Aug 2012, 3:00 pm
The Cook County Conviction Integrity Unit, established by DA Anita Alvarez earlier year, also reviewed the evidence and concluded that they could no longer stand by the conviction. [read post]