Trial opens for 2 ex-assistant state’s attorneys charged in fallout over infamous Jackie Wilson case
Nearly one year ago, a Cook County grand jury returned indictments accusing two former assistant state’s attorneys of misconduct in the prosecution of a man who the courts have said was wrongfully convicted of the 1982 fatal shootings of two Chicago patrol officers.
The former assistant state’s attorneys, Nicholas Trutenko and Andrew Horvat, have pleaded not guilty to the allegations and, according to their attorneys, are so eager to prove their innocence that they demanded a speedy trial at arraignment despite nearly 290,000 pages of evidence in discovery.
Their trial opens Monday in a northwest suburban courtroom, bringing to a head explosive allegations that stem from the case of Jackie Wilson and his older brother, Andrew, both of whom were found to have been tortured by detectives under disgraced Chicago Police Department Cmdr. Jon Burge’s supervision. The brothers’ allegations against Burge’s crew were among the first to be documented, helping
