A veteran prosecutor from Illinois has resigned, issuing a letter in which he criticized Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx for caring more about political narratives than victims of crime.
Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Jim Murphy issued the resignation letter following 25 years of service. In it, he cites a meeting with Foxx a few months back in which she criticized some of his bond hearings.
One of them was about a woman gunned down in crossfire while walking to a store. The hearing involved only gun possession charges. Foxx told Murphy that she was upset after reading a newspaper headline titled “Man won’t face murder charge under the SAFE-T Act.”…