It’s so weird, isn’t it? Employees and citizens keep denouncing and criticizing prosecutors backed by George Soros.
Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Now former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Now former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby.
Now we have Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx.
Yes, five. FIVE. I don’t believe in coincidences.
Foxx has been in a negative spotlight since the whole Jussie Smollett fiasco. Many people have left the office, leaving it short-staffed and unable to function.
Foxx said her office had lost 235 people, including attorneys and other employees, since July 2021.
Yikes.
James Murphy, a veteran assistant state’s attorney, resigned and slammed Foxx in his resignation letter in what might be the domino that begins her fall:
A 25-year veteran prosecutor issued a stinging rebuke of Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx in a letter announcing his resignation Friday, slamming his now former boss for being “more concerned with political narratives and agendas than with victims and prosecuting violent crime.”Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy described an understaffed office in turmoil in his email to colleagues, saying, “I cannot continue to work for an Administration I no longer respect.”“I would love to continue to fight for the victims of crime and to continue to stand with each of you, especially in the face of the overwhelming crime that is crippling our communities,” Murphy wrote. “However, I can no longer work for this Administration. I have zero confidence in their leadership.”Murphy, who could not be reached directly for comment, zeroed in on many of the issues that have made Foxx a target of opponents who argue she’s gone easy on some accused of violent crimes, as carjackings and gun violence have risen in the Chicago area.Murphy wrote that he first started thinking about leaving the office early in 2021 with Foxx’s involvement in the passage of the SAFE-T Act, a wide-ranging law that aims to reform the state’s approach to criminal justice, including by narrowing the definition of who can be charged with first-degree murder.
The SAFE-T Act says about first-degree murder:
(1) he or she either intends to kill or do great bodily harm to that individual or another, or knows that such acts will cause death to that individual or another; or(2) he or she knows that such acts create a strong probability of death or great bodily harm to that individual or another; or(3) he or she, acting alone or with one or more participants, commits or attempts to commit a forcible felony other than second degree murder, and in the course of or in furtherance of such crime or flight therefrom, he or she or another participant causes the death of a person
The previous law did not include the “death of a person.”
The change in first-degree murder is important because Murphy brings up the case where he could only file weapons charges against Travis Andrews and not for the murder of Melinda Crump.
The prosecutors originally charged Andrews with Crump’s murder because he allegedly started the gunfight that caused her death. The bullet that killed her came from the unknown person Andrews shot at.
Foxx mentioned the case to Murphy during a meeting not because of her disdain for the newly written law but because of the headlines:
“The State’s Attorney voiced her concern with the headline and the heat she was getting from her backers and never voiced any concern over the fact that this woman was shot and killed simply walking to the store,” Murphy wrote.“That is what is wrong with this Administration. I’ve seen it day after day. How many mass shootings do there have to be before something is done? This Administration is more concerned with political narratives and agendas than with victims and prosecuting violent crime,” he wrote.
It’s so funny. On July 25, The Chicago Tribune interviewed Foxx about the troubles in her office. Of course, Foxx didn’t provide specifics, and the Tribune didn’t interview anyone about why so many people have left.
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