New Chief Judge

The non-Prickwrinkle endorsed States Attorney won, and instilled some semblance of order over investigations and charging that may (MAY) reverse some of Crimesha's disastrous efforts.

This guy wasn't the Prickwrinkle Machine's first choice, but anyone coming from within the system is starting behind the eight ball:

• For the first time in nearly a quarter century, Cook County sees a new chief judge take office today. It’s a job that’s rarely in the spotlight, with outgoing chief Timothy Evans emerging from near seclusion only for occasional social club luncheons and press events promoting the court’s latest feel-good initiative.

  But his successor, Charles Beach, who ousted Evans in an upset vote by the county’s judges in September, will find himself under bright lights on day one.

  That’s because the county’s electronic monitoring program, most of which came under the control of the chief judge’s office earlier this year, is sagging under withering criticism after CWBChicago revealed that the man accused of setting a woman on fire aboard a Blue Line train in the Loop last month was wearing an ankle monitor issued by Evans’ office at the time of the horrific crime.
  
  Our further investigation revealed that Evans’ staff was aware that the accused man, Lawrence Reed, had repeatedly left home without permission, yet they took no action to bring him back. And, over the weekend, we reported that a man recently charged with shooting another man on the Red Line was also on the chief judge’s monitoring program.

  Now it will be up to Beach, a judge since 2017, to manage the fallout of those headline-making cases and figure out how to fix a program that, by Evans’ own admission last week, has no law enforcement mechanism to address AWOL defendants.

Someone had speculated in the comments section that the main reason the electronic "monitoring" program was put under the Chief Judge was that judges cannot be sued and found liable over the continued criminal behaviors committed by the released criminals.

We'll see what Beach ends up doing about any of it - and CWB will likely be leading the charge. Click the link up top for an entire series of links to their reporting.