Prosecuted Politically

Charges dismissed after a judge finds zero probable cause:

• A Chicago Police officer will not stand trial for felony drunk driving in a crash that killed two men, because a judge today found “no indication” the cop was drunk.

  Prosecutors had argued that the case against [J.A.] should proceed — even though the car the officer hit had blown a stop sign, and a bartender testified that the officer was not drunk.

  But Judge Don Panarese said he saw “no [indication] of impairment on the part of Mr. [A]” and found no probable cause for the case to proceed.

So this would appear to bolster the contention that this was a political prosecution in the heat of a hotly contested primary race. This would also seem to negate the State's Attorney's office attempting to use Administratively ordered evidence from being used against officers in violation of their Fifth Amendment rights and established Garrity Law.

And as the investigation determined (and the judge agreed) the other car was at fault (Unit #1), the evidence of someone making political hay out of this accident is indeed very likely.