Third Time Not the Charm
A lawyer representing himself is said to have a fool for a client....but this guy is 3-and-0:
As an amateur lawyer, Robert Ellis is now three-for-three in courthouse victories.
Last week, a Cook County judge found the 67-year-old Englewood man not guilty of a felony charge of impersonating a police officer. It was the third such case filed since 2018 in which Ellis has prevailed after representing himself legally.
[...] Ellis was arrested twice in the 1990s for felony police impersonation and convicted of both offenses, along with arson in 1997.
His "department" is a joke:
- He was appointed by Pembroke Township officials, even though the community of 2,000 people in rural Kankakee County had never put any officers through full police training, didn’t have a police station — or squad cars — or a budget.
So he goes out and buys a badge somewhere - in this case a "Beta United States Railroad Corporation and Police Department" badge and passes himself off as a cop.
Where are his e-learning records? Has he done Consent Decree training? Is there a list of awards and certifications he's gone through? How can he call himself an officer without any of these qualifications?
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posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
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Judge figured he was insane and therefore not capable of having the required intent. Now, to explain how MBJ has survived his comments about "ordering" the States Attorney is a harder lift. Is being totally ignorant of the law ever a defense?
The prosecutor must have been the worst, least motivated attorney. The judge was cook county. Nuff said
How can he call himself an officer without any of these qualifications?
He should run for mayor
“His ‘department’ is a joke”
- so is CPD oftentimes.
“…passes himself off as a cop.”
- Most of the CPD gold stars do the very same thing.
“Where are his e-learning records? Has he done Consent Decree training? Is there a list of awards and certifications he's gone through? How can he call himself an officer without any of these qualifications?”
- Is there a legally-defined time frame from the time an officer is appointed to attend all this training? He doesn't claim to be with CPD, so e-learning and consent decree training don't apply. You can't get awards without doing police work (well, see the gold star comment above). My guess is that there's some sort of loophole in the law that this guy is exploiting that bars him from being convicted. Is there any way to get the transcript of his trial(s)?
Badges...We don't need no stink'in badges.....
They should hire those antifi bitches,....they have check points to keep crime down I hear
J-Cat here...
Mmmmm.... 3 and 0 ...anyone have his number....
He must of had one of those DEI badges
He should probably be a cook county judge
He's a black senior citizen now so the sympathy factor played in and a stupid judge doesn't hurt.
Cum on bro, he be playing.
On par with the last couple of COD class graduates.
he took was an instructor in gym class so that's all the training he needed as he put on his 4 stars
He beat his case by impersonating an attorney. (silliness)
but don't forget, the dems and libs still say that white supremist are the biggest threats to America
I was just told to log in to some state website to make sure I was still certified by the state with a list of all classes and certificates I have ever received and to make sure I keep up to date with everything or go into a no pay status, then there’s this guy.
Is he an illegal too? Oh wait, that doesnt matter he can and will be hired by a PD.
You guys better stop talking shit about your next Superintendent...
tell us the good part what wuz he packin
Met Robert Ellis about 36 years ago, he was living in a condo in Country Club Hills. He claimed he had been a CPD recruit and had been bounced from the academy for something but was looking to get hired by another department. The guy probably would be at least a lieutenant by now if he had made it through the academy maybe even a deputy chief.
Dan Herbert could use him on staff.
I remember him from my time in 007. He would be up and down Ashland and he always carried a gun. The tact guys would arrest him and he would be released. As I recall he had some property in Harvey with about 50 feet of railroad track, nothing more.
yeah and he never met Ed Burke either
probably has the unit secretary do his yearly ethics test as well
from the article: " “This was ultimately a free speech issue,” Ellis said. “This was unconstitutional. Why did I spend 3-1/2 months in jail and miss my first daughter’s birthday for this?” " The article also says he is 67 years old... with a one year old! Sounds vigorous enough to be a policeman.
also, he wasn't arrested for an interaction with a citizen, he was busted for parking in the "Police Only" section of the arena parking lot.
Silly, Silly, Silly! -- Monty Python's Flying Circus Colonel interrupting sketches
You win best comment of the day. Maybe the week.
SPECIAL People can get away with that.
The RAiL Police.
Late 90's this guy bought (or squatted) a closed Chrysler dealer on Dixie in Harvey. He set up a small Kiddyland type train on the property and declared himself the "Chief of Railroad Police." He also had a car , with magnetic stick on signs that said "Police' and a red light on the dash, and would pull over cars on Dixie Hwy. There was a picture of him in the Daily Southtown some tears back of him riding on top of that miniature train engine with an engineers cap on and a 5 point star pinned to his shirt. The guys never been the Police, never attended any academy, nor has a state of Illinois police certification. Because these judges give him a play, he thinks he's doing nothing wrong. He does carry a gun and if stopped will immediately threaten to sue you.
He looks pretty squared away to me, more than a lot of the hair gels and mopes working today. Hire him, in a few years he could have Snelling's job.
I remember him from the 80's. He had a valid railroad police credential for owning a kiddie train line in Harvey. The state's atty. could do nothing about it.
I remember exactly that. He sat atop a miniature locomotive with his engineers cap and was the chief of police of his recognized railroad. I don't think he had enough track to complete a circle, but somehow it was a legal railroad.
Ellis actually WAS a Chicago Police Officer, although his tenure was brief.
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