An Illinois attorney says he was set up to be charged with his wife’s murder by a local police department and the state’s attorney’s office where he used to work, claiming in a federal complaint that the charges for which he was acquitted wrecked his law practice and forced him to skip town. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A former Chicago police commander acquitted last year on excessive force charges claims the city’s Independent Police Review Authority specifically targeted him and leaked confidential information to the media in retaliation for his contentious history with the group, according to a suit filed in Illinois federal court. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

The owner of a rooftop overlooking Wrigley Field who was convicted last month of defrauding the Chicago Cubs out of owed royalties asked an Illinois federal judge on Wednesday to either acquit him or grant a new trial, saying the jury’s verdict was against the weight of evidence. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

The federal government told an Indiana federal judge Friday that a former biofuel company executive convicted of hiding a $ 56 million fraud scheme should not be acquitted, saying there was more than enough evidence to prove the charges against him. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

The federal government told an Indiana federal judge Friday that a former biofuel company executive convicted of hiding a $ 56 million fraud scheme should not be acquitted, saying there was more than enough evidence to prove the charges against him. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

The owner of a rooftop overlooking Wrigley Field who was convicted last month of defrauding the Chicago Cubs out of owed royalties asked an Illinois federal judge on Wednesday to either acquit him or grant a new trial, saying the jury’s verdict was against the weight of evidence. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

A former Chicago police commander acquitted last year on excessive force charges claims the city’s Independent Police Review Authority specifically targeted him and leaked confidential information to the media in retaliation for his contentious history with the group, according to a suit filed in Illinois federal court Thursday. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))

An Illinois federal judge said Wednesday he won’t acquit a Chicago doctor convicted of steering dozens of his elderly patients to one hospital in exchange for free labor from hospital staff, rejecting the doctor’s argument that the arrangement falls within an exemption to the Medicare/Medicaid anti-kickback statute. Law360: (headline:(acquitted) OR summary:(acquitted))