Retiring prosecutor stands by rebuke of Kim Foxx’s leadership in Cook County state’s attorney’s office as discontent in ranks goes public

A longtime prosecutor who resigned last week told the Tribune on Tuesday he stands by a letter he penned faulting Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s administration for deep-seated issues in the office.

James Murphy was just one of the latest in a growing number of high-ranking prosecutors to leave one of the nation’s busiest state’s attorney’s offices.

A supervisor in the state’s attorney’s unit overseeing the early stages of murders and other serious cases, Murphy was often the face of the office’s most noteworthy felony cases, publicly recounting them in bond court and handling many through the process.

Since the letter was first reported by the crime website CWBChicago and later confirmed by