Special prosecutors assigned to cases connected to former CPD detective Kriston Kato are taking aim at a state torture commission created in the wake of allegations surrounding notorious ex-CPD detective Jon Burge.
Kriston Kato testifies Aug. 11, 2017, during the Jason Van Dyke trial at the Leighton Criminal Court Building. He was dispatched to the scene of Laquan McDonald's shooting as a representative of the Fraternal Order of Police union.
“Kato been on the radar of those who have been wrongfully convicted for decades, and now the chickens are coming home to roost,” said Flint Taylor, an attorney who has been involved in cases alleging CPD torture. “The county should be on the right side of history and not on the side of throwing a frivolous monkey wrench into the proceedings.”
Further, they allege, the county swapped one conflict of interest for another. The special prosecutors appointed are former Cook County assistant state’s attorneys who worked at the office during Kato’s time at CPD, according to the attorneys. The defense attorneys have filed a motion to disqualify Fabio Valentini and Maria McCarthy, former prosecutors now in private practice, from serving as special prosecutors on the case.
In another Kato case being tried by the special prosecutors, Kevin Murray, convicted in a 1987 double homicide, said that Kato and another detective “slapped him in the head, hit him on his neck, punched and kneed him in the stomach, punched him in the ribs, and kicked him in the leg, groin, and chest,” according to torture commission documents. The commission in 2017 also found Murray’s claims to be credible and referred it to a judge.
Binders are stacked on a cart after a meeting of the Torture Inquiry and Relief Commission at the Thompson Center on Sept. 21, 2016, in Chicago.
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