Same old story. Gunmen murdered young father in front of his children during North Side home invasion: prosecutors - CWB Chicago
Two bad guys invaded a Chicago home in West Rogers Park, one of the 77 neighborhoods in Chicago. Allegedly. West Rogers Park is about a 10 mile drive north of the Loop.
One of the accused men was on parole for armed robberies, and the other was on felony pretrial release when the killing occurred.
Pretrial release, not out on bail, because they no longer have cash bail in Illinois. That would be unfair.
They knew the guy they killed. Allegedly. Fingerprints were found at the scene, and their phones location data put them at the scene.
So how is that bail reform working out? The bad guy in this case is the eleventh person accused of killing or trying to kill someone in Chicago in 2025 while on pretrial release.
This report continues our coverage of individuals accused of killing, shooting, or trying to kill or shoot others on pretrial release for a felony allegation. CWBChicago began our series of reports in November 2019 after Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans publicly stated, “We haven’t had any horrible incidents occur” under the court’s bond reform initiative.
Chicago started the no-cash-bail initiative, which has since been passed into Illinois law. That is my understanding anyway. The bad guys basically have to kill someone before they can be held. These two are being held.
The superior court judge you quoted is an 82 year old quondam alderman. Not the sort of person you should have sitting on the bench.
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Progtrash obsessively stratify human beings. Their objection to a working system of justice is that it allows low status people (e.g. police officers) to exercise authority over their clients (slum blacks) and implement the common-and-garden moral judgments which are still implicit in penal codes. (Black chauvinists fancy their superior status is derived from birth rather than conferred by bourgeois progtrash). You could set up a system of indemnities for those subject to pre-trial detention to compensate them if (1) the case was not processed or (2) the charges against them fell apart or (3) their eventual sentence was less than time served in pre-trial detention. That's not acceptable to advocates of 'reform' because it still has higher-status people subject to lower-status people for a period of time. Formulaic sentences and mandatory minima are also unacceptable because they do not allow people such as themselves (lawyers and social workers) to exercise maximum discretion to limit the degree to which higher status people are subject to penalties for injuring lower status people.