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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Andy Grimm

Lawyers for accused cop killers want to question former CPD chief Garry McCarthy

The Star of Fallen Police Officer Clifton P. Lewis, retired at a ceremony in 2012. Lawyers for the three men charged with Lewis’ murder claim police withheld exculpatory evidence. (Sun-Times Media)

Lawyers for three men charged in the decade-old murder of a Chicago police officer want to put former CPD Supt. Garry McCarthy on the witness stand to answer questions about the monthslong dragnet that led to the trio’s arrests.

A trove of 35,000 pages of emails recently turned over to attorneys for alleged gunman Alexander Villa show that CPD launched a multi-agency investigation in the months after Officer Clifton Lewis was killed in the robbery of an Austin store in December 2011.

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