In a series of stunning revelations made under oath, former Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx said last month that she personally believed two exonerated men whose certificates of innocence were not opposed by her administration were, in fact, guilty of “a heinous act of murder.”
One of those two men recently reached a wrongful conviction settlement with the city of Chicago so large that it is awaiting City Council approval. The man accused of being his accomplice is preparing to take his lawsuit to a federal jury next week.
At another point in the four-plus hour deposition, Foxx revealed that when she announced during a luncheon speech at the City Club of Chicago that she would not run for a third term, the presentation was entirely ad-libbed and she had no factual basis for telling the crowd that Marilyn Mulero, one of the women whose wrongful conviction lawsuit prompted the deposition, “went to prison for a crime which she didn’t commit” and “was wrongfully convicted.”…