Since the 1970’s the City of Chicago has paid good money to private attorneys to represent the City and its police officers in the most egregious police misconduct cases, including paying over a million dollars to defend the City and Jon Burge in several police torture cases.
The civil rights trial attorneys at Jackowiak Law Offices have agreed to represent one of the Tinley Park Five defendants pro bono in the criminal case. Jackowiak Law Offices believes in the continued struggle to end racism and the fight for equality.
In a recent Ohio case, Green v. Throckmorton, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a jury can decide whether the police officer had enough evidence to administer field sobriety tests and arrest the driver for DUI.
Jim Andrews, owner of Felony Franks, is in the news again. As reported recently in the media, Felony Franks – a West Side hot dog stand that employs convicted felons – faces shut down.
