Good News

The Lil Homicide civil trial isn't happening for now:

• The family of Adam Toledo, the 13-year-old shot and killed by Chicago police in Little Village in 2021, has moved to voluntarily dismiss their wrongful death lawsuit.

  Attorneys for the family filed the motion in court Friday morning.

  Toledo was killed during a foot chase in 2021.

Obviously, the family is judge-shopping because (we're told) that most of the motions being made before trial are being denied or modified against the family, first and foremost being the claim by the lawyers that the witness list would be eighty or ninety names long.

The trouble was, there weren't eighty or ninety witnesses to the shooting - there were ZERO aside from the cops and the body cam video which showed Lil Homicide running with the gun and then popping out of hiding before being justifiably sent to his eternal damnation. 

You can't have people who weren't there testifying to things they never actually....you know....witnesses. The fact that he and his fresh gang tattoos were out after curfew with another felon shooting at passing vehicles was kind of inconvenient to the case, so the family didn't want any of that mentioned either.

They have a year to refile, but those rulings will follow the case no matter where it ends up.