CHICAGO (AP) — Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx was elected in 2016 mainly because of anger that the prosecutor she ousted had waited a year to charge a Chicago police officer in the killing of black teenager Laquan McDonald. Then Foxx, who is a survivor of sexual assault as a child, grabbed
But in the course of just a few days, her reputation as rising political star and legal crusader was badly tarnished by her office's handling of two celebrity cases involving"Empire" actor Jussie Smollett and Kelly.
David Erickson, a former state appellate judge who teaches at Chicago-Kent College of Law, said you'd have to go back 50 years to find a Chicago prosecutor so embroiled in controversy. Edward Hanrahan was charged with conspiracy in the deaths of two Black Panther members in a raid by agents from Hanrahan's office in 1969. He was acquitted, but ultimately ousted by voters.
The praise she received for opening up about being raped as a small child, and then taking on R. Kelly — a Chicago native who had beaten child pornography charges in 2008 — has been drowned out. Her office has been severely criticized by two major legal groups for what they called ethical lapses in the Smollett case.
Even Foxx's decision to recuse herself from the Smollett case is being questioned. Former judge O'Brien said a special prosecutor should answer whether Foxx really stepped back from the Smollett case after she said she was removing herself because of communications with a relative of the actor.
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