Part 4: Reversal of fortune
On a weekday afternoon one year ago, in a conference room 39 floors above LaSalle Street, two men sat at opposite ends of a long oval table ringed by a...
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Part 3: Prosecution on trial in DuPage
With little national fanfare, a most extraordinary trial is scheduled to open next week in the DuPage County courthouse. Though it has none of the star appeal of the O.J....
Part 2: The flip side of a fair trial
On his first day as a prosecutor assigned to a trial courtroom at the Criminal Courts Building, Michael Goggin slid into the chair next to the judge's chambers and his...
Part 1: The verdict: Dishonor
With impunity, prosecutors across the country have violated their oaths and the law, committing the worst kinds of deception in the most serious of cases. They have prosecuted black men,...
STARR’S CASE UNIQUE AND HARDLY AIRTIGHT
After four years of investigation, President Clinton is finally on trial in a most volatile courtroom on charges that are not charges at all but strong suggestions of wrongdoing. The...
TORT REFORM STRUCK DOWN BY JUSTICES
The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law that overhauled the state's civil justice system, saying the legislature's ballyhooed tort-reform measure trespasses on the judiciary's domain and discriminates...
JULY 27, 1919
They were separated by a line unseen and a law unwritten: The 29th Street beach was for whites, the 25th Street beach for blacks. An invisible boundary stretched from the...
HEIPLE OFFICE LEASE MAY BE HIS NEXT HEADACHE
For several years, James Heiple, now the Illinois Supreme Court's chief justice, leased his regional court office from a Pekin bank in which his wife was a director and stockholder,...
APRIL 21, 1898
The Spanish-American War, which officially began on this date, was a short and thoroughly lopsided affair, but it was long on enthusiasm and colorful characters. Future president Teddy Roosevelt led...
LAW SCHOOLS MISJUDGED BY AN ERROR IN RANKINGS
In the tony and tempered halls of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, students and staff are bent out of shape over having been erroneously ranked by U.S. News & World...