In always-busy Cook County court, high-profile cases likely to make news in 2023

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In the coming year, Cook County judges and attorneys will be navigating a new system for making pretrial decisions while tackling the usual onslaught of cases in the always-busy court system.

in Cook County, even though he is already serving a 30-year federal sentence in New York and is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court here in Chicago this year.

In recent months, as the federal cases are winding to a close, Judge Lawrence Flood has told attorneys to start working to resolve the matter.The procession for slain Chicago police Officer Ella French travels along West 77th Street after her funeral Mass on Aug. 19, 2021.Chicago police Officer Ella French, 29, was shot and killed in August 2021, while her partner, Carlos Yanez Jr., was seriously injured during a traffic stop in West Englewood.

Prosecutors charged three people in connection with the slaying: Clarisa Figueroa, her daughter, Desiree, and Clarisa’s boyfriend, Piotr Bobak. They alleged the trio lured her with baby items before killing her and cutting the baby from the womb. The boy died at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.

 

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