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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 .
Dwain Johnson, 20, was sentenced Friday morning by Cook County Judge Timothy Joyce, just days after his testimony helped secure the convictions of Devin Barron and Jaylen Saulsberry.
A man who pleaded guilty and testified against his co-defendants on trial for the killing of retired Chicago firefighter Dwain Williams has been sentenced to prison.