CHICAGO CRIME: BY THE NUMBERS 2020/PANDEMIC EDITION COVID-19 affected all areas of life in 2020. How did the coronavirus affect the Cook County criminal justice system? Outside of mandatory zoom court, what’s changed? Were fewer cases filed this year? Is criminal defense litigation down in 2020? From a criminal defense perspective, how is 2019 different […]
CHICAGO CRIME: BY THE NUMBERS
If you get charged with a crime, you’ve probably got a lot of questions. Am I going to jail? To prison? What’s going to happen to my record? How will this affect my job or my future? What are the consequences of this? But the biggest question thing you want to know is: What are […]
CHICAGO STYLE CRIME
What are people getting arrested for in Chicago & Cook County? What’s happening with their cases? What types of results do people get in their cases?
“THE COPS SET ME UP!” IS THIS A CRIMINAL DEFENSE?
Have you ever heard someone in the movies say: “Are you a cop? Cause if you’re a cop, you’ve got to tell me.” Don’t listen to movie characters or some idiot at the bar for legal advice. There’s a reason they’re not criminal defense experts. If an undercover cop does not tell you he is […]
HOW FELONY RETAIL THEFT TURNED INTO A MISDEMEANOR IN COOK COUNTY IL ONLY
THE PROSECUTOR’S POWER TO IGNORE: ****Attention Shoppers: As of December 11, 2016, if you are lucky enough to catch a retail theft under $1K in value (even with prior credit), you will be the happy winner of misdemeanor charges redeemable through Kim Foxx and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. ****(Offer valid only throughout Chicago […]
SMILE CHICAGO! YOU’RE ON CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT CAMERAS!
As of December 10, 2017, you can star in your own true crime TV show courtesy of the Chicago Police Department. Since that date, all Chicago Police patrol officers have body cameras. The Mayor’s office boasts this to be the largest rollout of body camera technology in the entire nation. This tactical development is the […]
AGGRAVATED DISCHARGE OF A WEAPON & UNLAWFUL POSSESSION OF A WEAPON BY A FELON IN CHICAGO IL – NOT GUILTY
Last summer, SD was arrested for Aggravated Discharge of a Weapon & Unlawful Possession of a Weapon by a Felon. He faced 6-30 years in prison. Minutes before his arrest, the police witnessed a man who vaguely resembled SD shooting into a vehicle at almost point-blank range. The police lost sight of this man and […]
BUSTED WITH BROWNIES? IL LAW TURNS CHOCOLATE INTO WEED
Let’s say you put 7-10 grams of marijuana into a batch of marijuana brownies. You bake them, wrap them all up, and put them in a cooler in the back of your car for tomorrow. On the way to your buddy’s place, you get pulled over and eventually searched by the police. They find the […]
CALLAHAN WINS CASE FOR HOLLYWOOD ACTOR
Hollywood actor David Hill has flown from California to Chicago a dozen or so times in the past two years, then driven a rental car down to Morris to go to court. “Crash in the car a few hours, show up in court, court’s in and out in 15 minutes, and then it’s back up […]
MOTION TO SUPPRESS GRANTED – CLASS X FELONY NARCOTICS CASE DISMISSED
Robert J Callahan – Chicago Criminal Defense Attorney Wins Class X Felony on Motion to Suppress…Cased Dismissed When police enter someone’s home without a search warrant, the presumption is that such an entry is illegal. Under most circumstances, any evidence seized as a result of that type of entry will be “suppressed”. That basically means […]