Judge's Ruling in Abbate Case Is Significant Victory for Civil Rights and Police Accountability Clinic
The federal judge has issued a ruling adopting the position taken by Clinical Professor Craig Futterman and Northwestern's Locke Bowman in denying the City of Chicago's attempt to vacate the recent jury verdict finding that a "code of silence" within the City of Chicago Police Department was in part responsible for the cover-up surrounding off-duty officer Anthony Abbate's video-taped beating of bartender Karolina Obrycka.
The Chicago Sun Times issued an editorial embracing the ruling.
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