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Posted on Dec 5, 2016 By Admin
The beginning of December in Chicago tolls a more somber bell than simply the start of the holiday season. As the month began, there had been more than 700 murders in the city since the beginning of ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2016 By Admin
As of October 2016, police have recovered 7,224 guns in the city of Chicago. That's up 21% from the same period last year and highlights the quantity of guns in circulation on Chicago streets. ...
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Posted on Oct 18, 2016 By Admin
Gun ownership in America has a history spanning hundreds of years, but the pictures painted by both the NRA and its pro-regulation political opposition may not tell the whole story. The proliferation ...
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Posted on Oct 6, 2016 By Admin
Black Americans are much more likely to be incarcerated than white Americans. They're more likely to be pulled over, too. And arrested. And when they do get arrested, their sentences tend to be ...
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Posted on Sep 23, 2016 By Admin
Over the past year, Chicago has seen more than its fair share of violence and heartbreak. January through August saw the murder rate rise a staggering fifty per cent. And the vast majority of those ...
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Posted on Sep 20, 2016 By Admin
A former daycare worker, convicted of murder in the 2009 death of a toddler under her care, may have the verdict reversed on her guilt. Melissa Calusinski, who was only 22 at the time of the alleged ...
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Posted on Sep 13, 2016 By Admin
It has been nearly two years since Laquan McDonald was fatally shot by a police officer on the streets of Southwest Chicago. On October 20 th, 2014, Officer Jason Van Dyke shot the seventeen-year-old ...
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Posted on Sep 10, 2016 By Admin
The criminal justice system aims to be representative of the ultimate in fairness. A determinant of truth, beacon of righteousness. Defending the innocent from painful subjugation. Sentencing the ...
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Posted on Sep 7, 2016 By Admin
Chicago saw 90 homicides in August —that's a shocking rate of three every single day. This dramatic month of violence close out the worst summer Chicagoans have faced in more than a decade. ...
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Posted on Aug 31, 2016 By Admin
The past month has been Chicago’s deadliest in nearly twenty years. August 2016 saw at least 78 homicides—rivaling the 79 recorded in October of 1997. In the past weekend alone, 67 ...
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Posted on Aug 28, 2016 By Admin
This semester, another 20 million students will be arriving back on their college campuses – and with the return of students comes more fraternities, clubs and sports teams opening up membership ...
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Posted on Aug 13, 2014 By Law Offices of Michael P. Schmiege
Each state has its own laws that govern how long a state has to begin a criminal case after a crime has been committed. Some crimes, such as murder, do not have any statute of limitations. It does not ...
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Posted on Jun 25, 2014 By Law Offices of Michael P. Schmiege
Assault is the charge that comes against anyone who has threatened to inflict immediate physical violence. Battery is when physical contact is meant to antagonize someone, such as a push, or when ...
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Posted on Jun 17, 2014 By Law Offices of Michael P. Schmiege
Saturday, June 14 a father and son in Bolingbrook were accused of attempting to lure a 15-year-old girl, trying to get her into their van, and then to try attacking adults who stepped in to help the ...
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Posted on May 12, 2014 By Law Offices of Michael P. Schmiege
Thursday, May 8, a teen was ordered under house arrest by a Cook County judge. The 17-year-old boy is looking at charges that include weapon crimes such as unlawful possession of a firearm and ...
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Posted on May 7, 2014 By Law Offices of Michael P. Schmiege
As of Tuesday, May 6, a special education teacher suspected of issuing bomb threats to her school is set to be evaluated for competency, pending a federal judge's decision. Allegedly, this high ...
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Posted on Feb 24, 2014 By Law Offices of Michael P. Schmiege
Thursday, February 20, a 13-year-old boy who was waiting outside of school with several other kids was arrested when he was accused of flinging a snowball at a police officer in Chicago. The officer ...
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Posted on Dec 16, 2013 By Law Offices of Michael P. Schmiege
If you have been charged with assault in Chicago, then you are not actually being charged with a violent action, only a violent threat. While you cannot land this charge for just a verbal threat, if ...
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Posted on Sep 26, 2013 By Law Offices of Michael P. Schmiege
The Chicago Tribune reports that in 2005, a man was arrested for the murder of his 8-year-old daughter and her friend. After more than 24 hours of interrogation by Lake County law enforcement, the ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2013 By Law Office of Michael P. Schmiege, PC
When defining types of murder, it is important to understand the differences as they will play role in the severity of the charges placed against you. For example, voluntary manslaughter simply put is ...
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Posted on Jul 18, 2013 By Law Office of Michael P. Schmiege, PC
In our windy city just two weeks ago, there were a number of homicides in just the four day period of the weekend, causing the city officials to acknowledge a grim milestone for their city of 200 ...
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Posted on Apr 23, 2013 By The Law Offices of Michael P. Schmiege
Breaking news reports share that at least 9 victims have been shot between Monday afternoon and this Tuesday morning in Chicago; one of them being a 15 year old boy. The scene of the first crime is ...
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Posted on Feb 11, 2013 By The Law Offices of Michael P. Schmiege
Delaware news reports share the shocking news of a courthouse child custody battle, gone wrong. After allegedly spending years in court over different custody battles with his wife, the gunman brought ...
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Posted on Feb 5, 2013 By The Law Offices of Michael P. Schmiege
For the month of January, murder rates in the city of Chicago are three times as high as that of New York City. What boggles the minds of local law enforcement officials is that the Chicago has a ...
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Posted on Jan 21, 2013 By The Law Offices of Michael P. Schmiege
This past December, an Illinois man was convicted of armed robbery after holding a student at gunpoint and robbing him of his casino winnings. Reports share that this man had a long history of ...
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