The Cook County court system is an enormous machine with dozens of interlocking parts. The machinery can get jammed at every stage of a case, and often does.
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Gerald Reed’s case took another pivot Tuesday when a special prosecutor retrying his double murder case asked a judge to set bond for him on charges related to new alleged crimes in three states.
Gerald Reed, whose life sentence was commuted last year amid allegations he was tortured into confessing to a double murder, can stand trial again for the 1990 killings – but he cannot go back to prison if he is convicted, a Cook County judge ruled Wednesday.