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A Cook County judge on Friday denied a man’s bid for a new trial in the troubled, yearslong saga stemming from the killing of off-duty Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis in 2011. After hours of arguments from attorneys, Associate Judge James Linn turned away the effort to secure a new trial for Alexander Villa, one of three men who were charged in Lewis’ killing but the only to be convicted. .
Over two days this week, the Osundairo brothers’ long-awaited testimony riveted jurors and spectators at the Leighton Criminal Court Building, where they laid out in detail a bizarre plot allegedly