- The man charged in the killing of off-duty Chicago police Officer Michael Bailey is finally slated to begin trial this week, nearly nine years after the veteran officer on the brink of retirement was shot dead in front of his South Side home.
Cook County prosecutors say Anton Carter attempted to rob Bailey of his new Buick Regal, sparking a shootout in which Bailey emptied his gun but was shot three times. His son found him motionless next to a bottle of glass cleaner.
Bailey, 62, was among five Chicago police officers killed in 2010, one of the department’s deadliest years in decades.
Prosecutors won convictions in the four other slayings as Carter’s case made its way through the system at a glacial pace even for the Leighton Criminal Court Building, the county’s main criminal court. Among the reasons for the delay was that prosecutors chose to first go to trial on a separate carjacking charge against Carter.
Anyone know what he got on the carjacking charge? We're a bit concerned because guess who Crimesha's staff is relying on for testimony?
- Little physical evidence links Carter to the killing, but Judge Stanley Sacks ruled earlier this year that prosecutors can call three jailhouse informants who allege Carter confessed to them in separate conversations after he was sent to prison on a parole violation about two months after the shooting.
One of the jailhouse informants recanted his previous testimony before a grand jury, alleging that Chicago police detectives offered him a substantial amount of money to cooperate against Carter.
Such testimony has been criticized as inherently unreliable.
And Crimesha's people fucked up a recent case when a jailhouse informant "recanted" just a few weeks ago.
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