Chicago police officers committed a “wide -ranging plan to manufacture evidence”, and claimed a federal lawsuit, in order to convict three people in the slaughter of Chicago police officer in 2011, Clifton Lewis, who was the controversial murder case suffering from misconduct.
Alexander Villa, 36, submitted the complaint nearly five months after the Cook Coke Judge requested a new trial during a hot hearing in October in the Lighton Criminal Court building. The Cook State Lawyer’s office in Cook’s province refused to re -equip the case, admitting that he had discovered the potential acquittal evidence that was not delivered to the defense, which is a violation of the defendant’s rights.
Villa, represented by Loevy + LOEVY, spent eight years in prison.
It was a villa of three people accused in the case that brought a separate lawsuit and led to the repercussions of the state lawyer’s office. Prosecutors have previously dropped the charges against other defendants, Edgaro Culon and Tirion Clay, who are following their demands.
The allegations of misconduct resulted in the resignation of one of the public prosecutors and the release of another. Former prosecutors, Andrew Farga and Nancy Idashi, were named in the lawsuit, along with the city and the boycott and a number of police officers and investigators.
The complaint claims that police officers, with the help of prosecutors and manufactured evidence, and suppressed the information that indicated the innocence of a villa in order to frame it after they were unable to force the recognition. They did this as part of an investigation team called “Snake Doctor” to target the Spanish Cobras Street, according to the complaint.
“No one can pay a villa again in exchange for what he passed, and the family of the officer Louis may not find justice for his loss.” “The taxpayers in the city of Chicago are still paying for CPD to change a well -documented pattern of decades’ misconduct.”
A spokeswoman for the city’s Ministry of Law refused to comment on the suspended litigation.
At approximately 8:30 pm on December 29, 2011, Lewis was working at a store at the West Side store when two masked men shot and killed him.
Al -Shakawi said: “Louis’s death was a tragedy and the crime solution was immediately a top priority to law enforcement in Chicago.”
Villa was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, but in 2023 his lawyer submitted a request for a new trial, claiming that the state prosecutor’s office found evidence that had to be launched earlier by Varga and AdDuci.
The proposal said that the state lawyer’s office discovered a tablet, as the employees mobilized the case materials to send to a warehouse after the ruling was issued in a villa. The disk, which was wrong in a folder of the recorded prison calls, contains an analysis of the FBI tower that showed that Villa was writing his girlfriend at the time of the shooting.
The shooting was arrested through monitoring footage that did not indicate that one of the archers was sending text messages, according to the movement.
Continuous investigation
The Motion said that the disk had a handwritten line that Varga had, although Varga and AdDuci had previously maintained a judge that they were not aware of the analysis, which was not delivered to the defense and was only obtained by calling a summons order To the FBI after he already convicted the villa.
When the evidence appeared, the Prosecutor’s Office did not oppose the request of a villa to a new trial. At that time, the office said in a statement that Lewis “deserves to be remembered for his service designated for the Chicago Police Department and Chicago, instead of the procedural errors that we have sought to strive for justice and accountability.”
But police officers and Louis family were angry at the decision, causing the session to be delayed for two hours after Lewis’ lawyers and sister asked the family members to hear in this regard, which led to a phone outside the court called Kim Foxx in the lawyer of Kokin at the time.
“I know that you are disappointed and that the family is disappointed, but if there is not enough evidence, there is not enough evidence,” Judge Carroll Howard said as she received her ruling.