Cook County state’s attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s complicated relationship with the Pretrial Fairness Act

Cook County state’s attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s complicated relationship with the Pretrial Fairness Act

On a Wednesday in mid-March, Janica Barnes sat in the gallery of room 102 at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse and waited for a judge to decide what would happen to her son, 22-year-old James Jones. He was accused of illegally possessing firearms while on parole for a prior firearm possession case, and a prosecutor with […] The post Cook County state’s attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s complicated relationship with the Pretrial Fairness Act appeared first on Chicago Reader.

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