Crimesha Overreach

We've got no use for crooked cops, but even a first year law student should know you can't introduce "unsubstantiated allegations" when charging:

• When a Chicago police officer stands trial in a case that accuses him of lying about a gun arrest, the jury won’t hear about other problematic gun seizures that could lead to his firing, a judge has ruled.

  Officer [DF], 35, was charged last year with writing a bogus report and providing false testimony about the arrest of Rodney Westerfield, who was found with two guns during a search in West Pullman in August 2020.

  As part of that case, the Cook County state’s attorney’s office has tried to tie [DF] to a broader “scheme” investigated by the city’s Civilian Office of Police Accountability, which found that [DF] and three other tactical officers seized guns without making arrests and then lied about where the weapons came from.

  Despite citing COPA’s allegations in court, prosecutors have declined to file charges in connection with those findings.

That last paragraph - Crimesha's own office REFUSED to file charges against the officer, but wants to introduce the investigation into evidence against him. Absent an actual conviction.

It's good to see that there are actually a few reasonably intelligent legal minds sitting on the bench, because there certainly aren't any around Crimesha's office.