The Chicago Police Department committed to releasing “merit” promotion lists in 2017, but the city is fighting their release in court.

An innocent St. Louis man was wrongly convicted of murder in 1995 after police fabricated trial evidence and prosecutors hid information from defense attorneys, the St. Louis prosecutor contends in a ...

The rising racial disparities in the court system have also led to wider disparities in incarceration rates. Black people are now incarcerated in the Cook County Jail at more than 17 times the rate of ...

Every two years, Cook County voters go to the polls to elect new judges and decide whether to retain sitting judges. We research every judicial candidate and provide comprehensive, nonpartisan voter ...

Responding to Darlie Lynn Routier’s frantic 911 call from her Dallas County home in 1996, police found her two sons, Devon Routier, 6, and Damon Routier, 5, dying of stab wounds. There were knife ...

Rank-and-file Chicago police officers elected John Catanzara to head the city’s chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police in early May 2020 — just weeks before George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis ...

The right to trial by an impartial jury is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. But in U.S. courtrooms today, the vast majority of people forego this right, opting instead to settle or plead guilty. A ...

For the third time in the past four elections, voters removed a Cook County judge from the bench — something which hadn’t happened in the previous three decades. Judge Shannon O’Malley, 62, a ...

Ariel Mayberry was approached by two Chicago police officers in May 2020 while he was stopped at a gas station in the Washington Heights neighborhood on the South Side. His was one of nearly a ...

Political consultant Wallace ‘Gator’ Bradley listens to a candidate for judge make their case to the Cook County Democratic Party during a ‘pre-slating’ event on Thursday, Oct. 14. Maya Dukmasova More ...

Sean O’Brien, who represented Amrine, linked the office’s seemingly reflexive opposition to innocence claims with Missouri’s devotion to the death penalty, favoring finality in court decisions. But ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a landmark criminal justice reform package into law Monday, making the state among the first to eliminate the use of cash bail. The sweeping overhaul, passed by the ...