U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros announced plans Monday to review nearly 20 years of grand jury proceedings involving a veteran prosecutor at the center of the tainted “Broadview Six” case as he moved to permanently drop charges in another case that Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Mecklenburg handled in which similar misconduct claims have surfaced.
Boutros personally filed a nine-page motion dropping charges tied to a 2018 arson at a West Side grocery store, using the document to make the case that “the presumption of regularity to which [the government] is entitled under the law should not be shaken.”
The top prosecutor was referring to the legal principle that presumes federal officials are acting in good faith — a presumption that’s been questioned by multiple judges in recent weeks…