Questionable Devices Jeopardizing Security at Criminal Courts Building CHICAGO, Dec. 7, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Cook County Sheriff's Department officials are mandating the use of makeshift "daisy chains" to restrain prisoners at the Criminal Courts Building, putting hundreds of Court Service Deputies in danger due to the questionable craftsmanship of the devices.
VAN NUYS When he's not in court, prosecutor Marcus Musante can usually be found smoking a cigarette or munching on a hot dog at Moses and Rosa Pruch's stand, which for two decades has been a fixture at the pedestrian mall outside the criminal courts building.
Attacks Highlight Understaffing of Cook County Courts System CHICAGO, April 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Supervisors at the Cook County Criminal Courts Building told two court service deputies represented by Teamsters Local 700 they were not to file charges after being attacked on April 27.
LOS ANGELES - A 38-year-old Monrovia man who admitted in court he was on a methamphetamine binge and was looking for money when he broke into an elderly couple's home and stabbed them to death in 2006 was sentenced Tuesday to two consecutive life prison terms. Alfredo Montez Valenzuela, who according to court testimony was a friend of Charles and Bernice Shaum, apologized to the couple's two daughters and granddaughter at his sentencing in Judge Lance Ito's courtroom at the downtown Criminal Courts Building.
Africa has been ravaged by armed conflicts and/or oppressive regimes for decades. During those conflicts or oppressive regimes, heinous crimes such as genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity have been committed and made millions of victims. Among these, only a handful number saw some justice. This was possible essentially because the international community took a vigorous stance against the impunity of war criminals and genocidaires by creating international judicial mechanisms, such as the International Criminal Court (ICC), to deal with it. Also, some individual African States have prosecuted international crimes within their municipal courts as well as some western States based on the universal jurisdiction principle. This article analyses the African contribution to the bu...
... off looking to the future to start building the necessary criminal justice systems that would ...
I do not regret the vote I made because my vote was for my constituents and not Todd Stroger. This is not about him," [Deborah Sims] explained. "I worked with the late John Stroger to get clinics opened in my district, which includes Robbins and Ford Heights, and it was not an easy thing to do. And I did not switch my vote either. I have said all along that if rolling back the sales tax meant closing clinics I would not support a rollback. "If Commissioner Sims has security concerns I suggest she contact the sheriffs office to see what security upgrades could be made," [Lisa Gordon] explained. "Keep in mind that county commissioners are part-time employees so we have no way of knowing when they will be in the office." "Chicago aldermen's offices are better protected man county commiss...
... 2, Sims said security at the Cook County Building, 118 N. Clark St., needs to be beefed up. "I have ... while some county buildings, such as the Criminal Courts Building, 2600 S. California Ave., Domestic...
ABSENT the glare of the news media that had evaporated just three months after the hit-and-run death of a USC undergraduate, there was mostly silence in Department 32 of the Los Angeles downtown criminal courts building on a recent Monday. Justice rarely makes much noise, though, unless there is a plea bargain as there was recently in this case. I found myself there not so much out of any civic duty as much as trying to deal with my own emotional struggles that come from losing a child to a crime that remains unresolved to this day, a dozen years after it happened. So I felt compelled to be in the courtroom set for the appearance of the two defendants charged with the hit- and-run murder of 19-year-old Adrianna Bachan last March. (Subsequently, they have rejected a prosecution offer tha...
Opponents of the death penalty renewed their call Wednesday for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant clemency to Crips gang co- founder and convicted killer Stanley "Tookie" Williams . Members of the Save Tookie Committee gathered in front of the Criminal Courts Building in downtown Los Angeles on the day before a deadline for the District Attorney's Office to reply to a clemency petition submitted by Williams' lawyers last week.
The court of public opinion may be divided in R&B singer R. Kelly's child pornography case. In the opening days of Kelly's trial, which began May 9, fans and foes, like Naji AIi, foreground, made their Opinion known. Defender/Worsam Robinson Armed with poster board signs stating that the Chicago-born music superstar is the "World's Greatest Pedophile" and "Danger R. Kelly pedophile alert!" Najee AIi repeatedly shouted in front of the Cook County Criminal Courts building May 9 that Robert Kelly was guilty and was going to jail, as another protester shouted the same through a megaphone. Jerhorfda Johnson, an 18-year-old Streamwood resident, told AIi and other protestors that Kelly was innocent and prosecutors "don't have a case. Armed with poster board signs stating that the Chicago-...
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