“The Shark” has been beached. Two months after being accused of badmouthing a former drug client on social media for turning government informant, longtime Chicago defense attorney Joseph “The Shark” Lopez was suspended from practicing in federal court for six months and fined $5,000. In her three-page ruling, U.S. District Chief Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer wrote that Lopez violated several rules .
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It was after dark by the time Arthur Brown, skinny and shellshocked, walked out of Cook County Jail. A crowd of supporters was waiting. “That’s him! That’s him!” they screamed. “He’s free!” It was November 2017. Prosecutors had thrown out his case. For the 29 years leading to that exact moment, Brown had been locked up for a fatal fire he insisted he did not set. He walked out to a scrum of .