Chief Circuit Court Judge Tim Evans and the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois fired back at Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday for suggesting judges should assume defendants are guilty — even before being tried and convicted — because of the “exacting standards that the state’s attorney has for charging a case.”
A former federal prosecutor, Lightfoot has faced an avalanche of criticism for her strongest attack yet on criminal court judges she blames for allowing repeat offenders back on the streets.
