It Was a Long Shot Anyway

Crooked political prosecutions and crooked political prosecutors will probably never be held accountable:

• A federal judge has thrown out claims against former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx and two prosecutors named in a lawsuit brought by a Chicago police officer who says he was wrongly charged after a 2022 on-duty shooting that led to his suspension and a criminal trial that ended with his acquittal.

  In a July 11 opinion, U.S. District Judge Jorge Alonso granted motions to dismiss all claims against Foxx and assistant state’s attorneys Lynn McCarthy and Alyssa Janicki, citing prosecutorial immunity. The officer, Christopher Liakopoulos, alleged the trio knowingly pursued charges “despite the absence of probable cause,” withheld exculpatory video evidence, and “conspired in the preparation and presentation of testimony that was misleading and inaccurate” to the grand jury.

  [....] Because prosecutors are immune from civil suits for actions tied to their core responsibilities—even if they act “maliciously, unreasonably, without probable cause, or even on the basis of false testimony or evidence,” as the court quoted from a landmark case—Foxx, McCarthy, and Janicki were dismissed entirely from the lawsuit. 

But guess who might be facing civil consequences?

• Although Foxx and her prosecutors are out of the case, Alonso allowed several claims against Chicago Police Officer Emmet Welch to proceed. That includes allegations that Welch gave knowingly false testimony to the grand jury, which led to the criminal indictment.

The IAD "investigator" who committed alleged perjury will be facing a trial and jury for potential damages, but not the political class.