A federal lawsuit claims Cook County prosecutors routinely have witnesses jailed ahead of trial, based on allegedly unlawful subpoenas for “prep” sessions.
Latoya Ward, a 20-year-old mother of a toddler, was jailed for more than a month after she didn’t show up for a meeting with prosecutors who intended to have her testify against the man charged with killing her brother in 2016, according to the complaint filed Wednesday, the day after Ward took the stand as a prosecution witness in the trial of Eric Black.
