Ed Burke trial on hold for a week after lawyer tests positive for COVID
Burke’s trial is expected to last six weeks, until mid-December. But the slow jury selection and COVID delay now threaten to push the trial deep into the holiday season.
Burke’s trial is expected to last six weeks, until mid-December. But the slow jury selection and COVID delay now threaten to push the trial deep into the holiday season.
Ald. Emma Mitts also voted against censure, saying she accepted an apology from Ramirez-Rosa, who was accused of blocking her from a meeting and bullying other alderpersons.
Ward residents aren’t optimistic Burke’s upcoming trial will clean up Chicago corruption. But some hope more ethical candidates will run.
Burke could be seen reviewing paperwork, including potential jurors’ questionnaires. But he mostly seemed to be taking it all in.
Political science professor Constance Mixon’s testimony about government operations will be crucial to helping jury understand the racketeering case against former City Council member Ed Burke, prosecutors say.
U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall held Tuesday’s hearing to determine whether Elmhurst University political science professor Constance Mixon should be allowed to testify during ex-Ald. Ed Burke’s trial.
That power came from “scratch my back” Chicago politics, including aldermanic prerogative, a tradition that good government advocates have been fighting to end for years
Burke’s defense team had asked that any mention of the former alderman’s work for Trump International Hotel & Tower be barred from the trial, arguing the former president was “despised by a significant percentage of the population.”
Prosecutors have called the words of ex-Ald. Edward M. Burke “distasteful,” but they’ve argued they go to the heart of Burke’s alleged scheme.
Johnson is pledging he won’t raise property taxes, saying the city’s budget gap will be plugged with rosier revenue projections and other money.