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?