Getting Started

Just wanted to get this thing started. This blog is a space for lawyers, judges, court room personnel, and anyone else involved with the criminal justice system in Cook County, Illinois. Hopefully, this blog will provide a space for frank, honest, and candid discussions about topics impacting us all. This is not a place for idle gossip and character assassination. Remember what Eleanor Roosevelt said, "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss people." Bearing this principle in mind, I am not suggesting that a particular jurists ruling or a particular attorney's conduct is not worthy of public discussion under the right circumstances. For example, did a Judge reject an agreed disposition; did a witness get caught perjuring himself/herself; did a judge make a courageous (or cowardly) ruling on an important issue ... The list could go on ad infinitum. What I am saying is that this page is for everyone and by everyone. At the end of the day it may make for a place to rant a bit, to blow off some steam, to share an idea, to make a friend, and help us all to become better informed. Enjoy and, of course, be careful out there.