More than a month after prosecutors dropped charges against two men who were accused of murder in the 2011 shooting death of an off-duty Chicago police officer, attorneys for the final defendant in the troubled case made a bid to replace the Cook County judge overseeing it, arguing he has “consistently displayed prejudice” and “derided” evidence pointing to innocence. But Cook County Judge .
Alexander Villa, awaiting sentencing after a 2019 trial verdict, has said police, prosecutors hid evidence from his lawyers. He wants a new judge appointed.
For more than a decade, Tamara Latrice Tucker attended nearly every hearing involving the three men charged in the murder of her fiancé, Chicago Police Officer Clifton Lewis.