“People try to get out of jury duty, but what we find is that once they are actually on a jury they take it seriously and they want to get it right.”
Tag: Vincent Gaughan
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Spectator who exclaimed ‘What?’ in court jailed—without bail—during Jason Van Dyke hearing, activists say
The man was one of two who received stiff penalties for contempt from Judge Vincent Gaughan recently.
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Chicago’s ‘clusters’ of unsolved strangling deaths near Washington Park and Garfield Park, and other news
Also, Chris Kennedy continues bold attack on Emanuel by mentioning Joe Berrios.
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Judge in Laquan McDonald murder case faces a challenge trying to control the flow of information, and other Chicago news
Also, Rahm Emanuel says Trump is trying to distract Americans from important issues like the North Korea crisis.
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Historians: The Bronzeville Culver’s is being built on the site of a former Confederate smallpox cemetery, and other Chicago news
Also, an auto parts maker is opening a south-side plant that will create about 300 new jobs.
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Dan Herbert lives to serve and protect cops—even Laquan McDonald’s killer
The Chicago defense attorney sees police officers accused of misconduct as “the ultimate underdog.”
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How do you defend a killing caught on video? Lawyers talk shop on possible tactics for defending Jason Van Dyke.
The whole world saw Van Dyke shoot Laquan McDonald. Now the lawyers of R. Kelly, Rod Blagojevich, and countless murder suspects consider what’s left to argue.
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What the Van Dyke murder trial judge has in common with Laquan McDonald
Vincent Gaughan posed a public danger one morning when he was 28. But the police response was far different from Jason Van Dyke’s.
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I hope y’all got playa’s cards, ’cause y’all ain’t gettin’ in unless you do
After the R. Kelly trial, the afterparty.
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A Reporter Pleads the Fifth
What did music critic Jim DeRogatis have to fear from testifying in the R. Kelly trial?
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Jim DeRogatis Writes the Tribune
Jim DeRogatis protests the Chicago Tribune’s characterization of his refusal to testify in the R. Kelly trial.
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Papers intervene in R. Kelly trial
Sun-Times, Tribune file motion seeking to end the secrecy in the R. Kelly case.