'Stunning misconduct': Cook County prosecutors, Chicago police, judge sued in botched prosecution of police officer's murder
Two men who fought a 12-year battle for exoneration after they were accused of killing a Chicago police officer filed sweeping lawsuits against the city, Cook County prosecutors, police officers and a judge, alleging large-scale misconduct committed in a quest to close a police officer’s murder case. Officer Clifton Lewis was shot and killed by two masked men in December 2011 while working a ...