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The Blue Wall Continues

By Lawrence Taylor

 Following up Monday’s "Who-will-guard-the-guardians?" story from New Jersey, this one from Chicago: Judge Tosses Out Officer’s DUI Arrest   Chicago, IL.  April 27 – For more than two years, the families of two young men killed in a Thanksgiving Day collision with an off-duty Chicago police officer have fought to prove the officer was drunk and responsible for the deaths. But Tuesday, a Cook County judge handed them their latest setback, saying the officer was arrested and detained without probable cause, a ruling the families fear guts the prosecution’s case. Several relatives of one victim erupted in anger at the decision, shouting obscenities and scuffling with court deputies, creating a scene that revealed the raw emotions behind the long and controversial case… Circuit Judge Thomas Gainer ruled police had no probable cause to arrest off-duty Officer John Ardelean, 36...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on April 28, 2010 (boomark / email).