Matthew Hendrickson

Menelik Jackson, 29, took the stand and admitted to firing a handgun seconds after walking up to Officer John Rivera’s car early in the morning on March 23, 2019. It took jurors less than an hour to convict him Tuesday.

“The fees were unreasonable for a variety of reasons, including the results actually obtained by the Firm,” the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission wrote in a petition to the Supreme Court to discipline Leving.

During the actor's trial, special prosecutors accused Smollett of staging the attack for publicity because he was unhappy with his salary for his role on the hit television show “Empire” and was attempting to launch a music career.

Emonte Morgan was found guilty in March after jurors watched harrowing footage of the traffic stop that went from routine to deadly in seconds, claiming French's life and seriously wounding her partner, Officer Carlos Yanez.

Michael Gargiulo, 48, is accused of the fatal stabbing of Tricia Pacaccio in 1993 in Glenview. Gargiulo was sentenced to death for two L.A.-area killings, including a woman getting ready to go out on a date with actor Ashton Kutcher.

Rhanni Davis, 30, accused of killing four people on a Blue Line train early Monday, was ordered held in custody pending trial.

A panel of Cook County judges met twice this month to determine whether Judge Peggy Chiampas violated ethics rules when she threatened Robert Almodovar with jail time and banned him from the Leighton Criminal Courthouse.

Cook County Chief Judge Tim Evans said he will convene a panel this week to consider whether a judge violated ethics rules when she also threatened the man with jail time for having a cellphone.

Munoz was arrested in May after he “slow-rolled” into another car in Berwyn and was found slumped over the wheel of his own car with a half-empty bottle of rum on the front passenger seat, according to a motion filed in federal court on Monday.

Robert Almodovar had been working as a law clerk after spending more than 20 years in prison for a double murder he did not commit. Judge Peggy Chiampas banned him from the Leighton Criminal Courthouse last October because she believed he wasn't allowed to have a cellphone in the building.