Chicago Lawyer Resigns After Hiding Evidence in Police Shooting

The Chicago Police Department’s chief crime strategist, a close ally of ousted Superintendent Garry McCarthy, has announced his retirement. A spokesman for the law department told the Post he didn’t have a way to leave a message for Marsh seeking comment, and there wasn’t a public telephone listing for anyone named Jordan Marsh in Chicago.

Van Dyke, who faces first-degree murder charges, has pleaded not guilty.

Since December 4, the use of dash-cam video and audio by officers has increased.

The payout – which will be divided among the victims – comes as the U.S. Department of Justice descends on the city to investigate the patterns and practices of the Chicago Police Department, which has come under fire in rececnt months for a series of killings and abuses committed by its officers.

The five children of a woman who was shot to death by Chicago police have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city.

A Chicago city lawyer has resigned after a federal judge ruled he and another attorney intentionally withheld evidence in a police shooting death case.

A lawyer or Pinex’s family says Marsh’s conduct speaks to a bigger issues within the city.

The judge on Monday tossed a jury’s finding in April that the police shooting was justified, ordered a new trial and instructed the city to pay attorney’s fees to the plaintiffs. Chang also accused the Law Department of poorly training and overseeing city attorneys, creating an environment that hampered production of records essential to prosecuting cases of police misconduct.

Federal investigators said in December they will scrutinize claims of pervasive civil rights violations in the department as a whole, rather than against individual officers.

According to lawyer Torreya Hamilton, Judge Chang also sanctioned the city’s law department for possibly concealing evidence in her case that accused police of false arrest and illegal search. “I don’t think they cared that [Pinex] got killed, they didn’t care what the truth was and they didn’t care they cheated [with the evidence]”. During Tuesday’s press conference, the mayor didn’t say what steps he plans to take regarding Marsh and also didn’t say whether he will order a full review of Marsh’s work, but he did note that his legal adviser, Stephen Patton “is going through the pieces right now in that area”. “There is no statute of limitations on that”, Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel told the Chicago Sun-Times.

Governor Rauner, a Republican, said he was “very disappointed” with how Emanuel has handled police misconduct cases. “I have seen time and time again that [city lawyers] are not held to the same rules”.

The latest lawsuit said Jones was shot when she answered the door at the request of her upstairs neighbor, who had called the police because LeGrier, his son, had threatened him with a baseball bat. And the calls for his resignation have largely come from grassroots activists and residents, not from the city’s political powerbrokers.