Friends for 25 years: The judge who freed a cop killer and the chief judge who couldn’t fix an ankle monitor program are under fire together – CWB Chicago

They started as young attorneys on opposite sides of the courtroom — John Lyke as a prosecutor, Charles Beach on the defense — and years later found themselves on the bench in the Pretrial Division at 26th and California, one of the most grueling assignments in the building, where 50, 70, sometimes 100 defendants a day cycled through to have bail amounts set on charges ranging from pot possession to murder.
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Brian Jones
21 hours ago

In Cook County all reforms are performative. They are as substantial as the so-called reformative training the alleged killer took.

And still real people really die.

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