The imbroglio happened May 7 at the Loop courthouse during a hearing in front of Judge Kathy Flanagan, acting presiding judge of the Law Division. During the proceeding, Flanagan ordered deputies to remove attorney Brad Schneiderman from the courtroom after asking him to “stop talking” and “step back,” according to a report from the Cook County sheriff’s office.

Schneiderman walked toward the gallery, then began “turning back toward the bench” and addressed the judge again, the report said. Flanagan said “That’s it, take him!” according to the report.

A deputy took Schneiderman to a hallway and handcuffed him to a chair, the report said. He was released after Flanagan took a break from the bench and declined to sign an order that would remand him into custody, according to the report.

Reached by phone, Schneiderman declined to comment.

In a statement, Flanagan said: “At this time, I will say only that I am shocked at how the facts have been distorted into a now-public narrative that has veered so far from what actually occurred. I have cooperated fully with the Executive Committee and will cooperate fully with the Judicial Inquiry Board on this matter.”

The event spawned two hearings before an executive committee headed by Chief Judge Timothy Evans with Schneiderman, Flanagan, witnesses and attorneys detailing differing views of what happened, according to transcripts obtained by the Tribune. No official transcript of the May 7 hearing in its entirety exists because Cook County court reporters for years have not covered the Law Division, which handles civil cases.

The executive committee referred the matter to the Judicial Inquiry Board, which investigates complaints about judges, but declined to reassign Flanagan, deferring “a decision on assignment to other duties until further information is received from the Judicial Inquiry Board,” the office said in a statement.

During a May 14 executive committee hearing, Schneiderman told Evans he tried to be heard after he said Flanagan ruled on a motion without allowing him to respond, a statement which Flanagan disputed later in the proceedings.

“I should say that prior to me being taken back in the hallway, at no time was I trying to be disrespectful to the court,” Schneiderman said according to the transcript. “I was merely trying to advocate on behalf of my client on a contested motion.”

For her part, Flanagan told the committee at a later hearing that Schneiderman “became disruptive over a ruling on a motion” but that she did not order Schneiderman to be handcuffed, but merely wanted him removed from the courtroom because he needed a “time out.”

“That’s all he needed. That’s all I intended. I never imagined that he would be handcuffed to a chair behind the courtroom, and I wasn’t present when he did it — when he was handcuffed,” she said.

Schneiderman disputed that he was disruptive or disrespectful, with his attorney submitting affidavits from observers, according to references to the affidavits in the transcript. Flanagan’s attorneys brought to the hearing multiple courtroom observers as witnesses who told Evans they viewed Schneiderman’s conduct as disruptive.

The deputy who handcuffed him told the committee during a second June 3 hearing that she interpreted Flanagan’s words of “That’s it. Take him,” as meaning take him into custody.

An order filed Wednesday outlines the damages owed to Crispiniana Domingo, who in 2016 was arrested and charged with aggravated battery to an infant being treated at UIC hospital. Domingo is owed $3.67 million in compensatory damages and $220,000 in punitive damages from the UIC officer who falsely charged her with beating the child and breaking his arm, according to court records.

Domingo, a Bolingbrook resident, was found not guilty of the original battery charges in February 2018, per the complaint.

She spent about a week in Cook County Jail and was suspended from work for about two years during criminal proceedings, the complaint stated.

Attorney Richard Dvorak said an investigation of the baby’s medical history helped clear Domingo of the charges, but that the allegations and legal process were “absolutely horrible and devastating” for her.

He said the verdict and award was a “huge message to police and detectives that they can’t just ignore all of this medical evidence and prosecute people for crimes they didn’t commit.”

Domingo has not worked in nursing since the 2016 accusation, he said.

“(Domingo) had a really good, productive life and this is a classic example of how malicious prosecution can destroy someone’s life,” he said.

An attorney for the officer who was the defendant in the case was unavailable for comment.

Ogle County Sheriff Brian VanVickle says the deputies were shot while responding to a report that someone inside the home was threatening to kill themself or others. He said the suspect also was shot.

Ambulances and two medical helicopters went to the Lost Lake community near Dixon, where there also was a massive police presence, according to a post on the Winnebago Boone & Ogle County Fire/Ems Incidents Facebook page.

A spokesperson at Katherine Shaw Bethea Hospital in Dixon said three people were taken to the hospital’s emergency department, two of whom were treated and released. The spokesperson did not release the condition of the third person.

A person answering the phone at the Ogle County Sheriff’s Department would not comment when reached by The Associated Press.

Aerial video by local media Wednesday afternoon showed law enforcement and personal cars parked on the side of unpaved roads throughout the neighborhood and officials occasionally gathering in small groups but little ongoing activity. Yellow police tape blocked at least one driveway and an Ogle County sheriff’s mobile command center was parked at the end of the drive.

Lost Lake’s property owner’s association describes the area as a “country style community” with about 700 owners in an unincorporated area close to the cities of Dixon, Franklin Grove and Oregon, about 100 miles west of Chicago.

LAWRENCE, Kansas — Douglas County prosecutors rested their case Wednesday in the rape trial of Terrence Shannon Jr. as jurors heard testimony from his accuser’s best friend and others who were present at the crowded bar near the University of Kansas campus the night of the alleged sexual assault.

Shannon, a Chicago native and University of Illinois men’s basketball standout, faces one count of rape or an alternative count of aggravated sexual battery, also a felony. He stands accused of putting his hand under an 18-year-old woman’s skirt, grabbing her buttocks and penetrating her vagina with his finger while in an area of the Jayhawk Cafe called the Martini Room.

Shannon has denied the allegations, which stem from a September trip he and two others took to Lawrence to watch an Illini-Jayhawks football game. His NBA hopes — some prognosticators believe he could be a first-round pick in this month’s draft — likely hinge on the outcome of a trial that is scheduled to conclude two weeks before the NBA draft.

Day three of the trial also included testimony from two forensic scientists, one from the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the other privately hired by the defense, whose analysis and interpretation of DNA in the case reached somewhat different conclusions.

Both agreed that no male DNA was detected in swabs taken from the 18-year-old’s vagina and genital area.

The KBI forensic scientist wrote in her report that swabs from the interior and exterior crotch of the woman’s underwear revealed an “insufficient amount of male DNA” to move forward with testing, though she told jurors Wednesday that those levels were essentially too low to say conclusively whether they were even DNA.

But the defense’s forensic scientist called the report’s reference to male DNA “a very misleading statement.”

Using a different measurement threshold than the KBI, the defense’s scientist also concluded “with scientific certainty” that Shannon’s DNA was not in a sample collected from the 18-year-old’s buttocks.

The day began with testimony from the accuser’s 19-year-old best friend and roommate, who gave jurors a now-familiar account of the night, starting with their attendance at the KU-Illini football game, followed by a bite to eat at their apartment, stops at the Jayhawk Cafe (known locally as The Hawk) and a second bar in downtown Lawrence and, then, a return visit to The Hawk.

She told jurors she was next to the 18-year-old as they tried to weave through the packed Martini Room toward the exit, and that she was the one who encouraged her to go back inside after the 18-year-old told her about a cute guy who waved her over to him.

“I figured it would make her night more fun,” she told jurors.

The friend testified she did not see the alleged assault take place and only realized later that night that her roommate’s urgent request to leave was not because of the crowd.

The friend also told jurors that she saw Shannon grab the 18-year-old’s hand or wrist and pull her toward him. But on questioning from Shannon’s attorney, Tricia Bath, she acknowledged she did not share that detail in previous interviews with police or prosecutors.

Later in the trial, Bath called a computer forensics expert to the stand who, acting on a defense subpoena, extracted data from the accuser’s friend’s phone. That data, he testified, showed that the two women returned to the Martini Room about 24 hours after the alleged sexual assault.

Phone records also showed a December group message thread involving the two women and their two other roommates, including the best friend’s sister. The exchange included a link to an ESPN article on Shannon’s suspension from the Illini men’s team following the rape charge, and a message from the friend’s sister that read “got his ass,” followed by two face emojis with dollar signs for eyes and cash for tongues.

The testimony did not mention any response from the 18-year-old to that message.

KU men’s basketball players Hunter Dickinson and Kevin McCullar Jr. also testified on the defense’s behalf, as did Illini guard Justin Harmon and the team’s graduate assistant, DyShawn Hobson. All four were with Shannon at the Martini Room that night; all four said they never saw him grab any woman at the bar.

Shannon’s academic adviser at Illinois, Reba Daniels, also took the stand. She said she also taught courses Shannon took and worked with him during an internship with the university.

“I was completely shocked,” she said when asked about her reaction to the allegations against Shannon, whom she described as kind, trustworthy, hardworking, and a “gentle giant.”

“It’s just not the person I know,” she told jurors. “Even to this day, I’m shocked I’m sitting here.”

Closing arguments are expected to take place Thursday.

Tim Mapes, 69, Madigan’s fierce gatekeeper for decades, reported Tuesday to a medium-security federal prison in Pensacola, Florida, to begin serving his 30-month sentence for perjury, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.

Under federal rules, Mapes must serve 85% of his sentence, meaning with good behavior, he can expect to be released sometime in July 2026. An official release date will be set later by the prisons bureau.

It’s the latest stop on a downward slide for a man who served for years as Madigan’s chief of staff, House clerk and executive director of the Madigan-run Illinois Democratic Party. The penitentiary is also a huge comedown for a guy who used to march throughout the House and bark orders to lawmakers at will — all with Madigan’s imprimatur.

Records show Mapes has at least one familiar face behind bars. The same Pensacola prison currently houses former state Rep. Luis Arroyo, a Chicago Democrat convicted in an unrelated bribery scheme involving sweepstakes gaming legislation. Arroyo was sentenced to 57 months last year and is due to be released in December 2025.

Mapes was convicted by a jury in August of perjury and attempted obstruction of justice charges alleging he lied to a grand jury in 2021 in a failed attempt to protect Madigan from a widening political corruption investigation.

When he went in for his interview, Mapes had been immunized by the U.S. attorney’s office, meaning he could not be prosecuted for what he said as long as it was the truth.

In its decision, the jury found Mapes had lied on every occasion alleged by prosecutors in the indictment, which consisted mostly of a series of “I don’t recall” answers to questions about “assignments” Madigan handed down to his longtime confidant, Michael McClain.

In May 2023, McClain was found guilty along with three others in a bribery conspiracy to funnel payments from Commonwealth Edison to Madigan associates in hopes of gaining the speaker’s influence over the utility’s legislative agenda in Springfield.

Madigan lost the speakership and resigned his House seat in 2021, a year before being indicted along with McClain in a separate racketeering case alleging Madigan ran a criminal enterprise that used his power of elected office to shake down ComEd and AT&T and a real estate developer in Chinatown.

The trial for Madigan and McClain was supposed to start in April but was delayed six months after the U.S. Supreme Court decided to review an Indiana case involving the same federal bribery statute.

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Shortly before 8:45 p.m., the victim exited a business in the first block of West Van Buren Street when someone emerged from a crowd and attacked him with a knife, police said.

The victim suffered a large laceration to the left arm, and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where his condition was stabilized.

No one was in custody, and detectives were investigating.

About 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, the man was involved in an argument with a male after attempting to deliver food in the 1200 block of West 68th Street. Someone opened fire striking the delivery driver in the head. He was taken in critical condition to UChicago Medicine, police said.

No one was in custody, and detectives were investigating.

About 11 p.m., the woman was driving a Chevrolet Malibu in the 800 block of West Garfield Boulevard when a silver SUV approached and someone inside opened fire. The victim suffered a gunshot wound to the upper back and lost control of her vehicle striking a Volkswagen Jetta in the 5400 block of South Halsted Street, police said.

The 19-year-old woman was taken to UChicago Medicine where she was pronounced dead. She was identified as Cyra C. Magby of the 7800 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Another 19-year-old woman who was a passenger inside the Malibu suffered lacerations to the face and also was taken in serious condition to the same hospital where her condition was stabilized, police said.

The driver of the Jetta and a passenger, a 43-year-old man and a woman, 40, were taken in good condition to Stroger Hospital with minor injuries, police said.

The silver SUV fled north from the scene. No one was in custody and detectives were investigating.

Shortly before 8:30 p.m., the boy was on a sidewalk in the 2700 block of South Komensky Avenue when a witness saw someone open fire in the boy’s direction before fleeing south.

The boy was struck multiple times to the body, and was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was listed in critical condition, police said.

No one was in custody and detectives were investigating.

“I asked him, ‘Hey dad, is there anywhere you want to go? Is there anything you want to do?’” Justin Leinenweber told the Tribune. “And, he was like, ‘I don’t have a bucket list. I’ve sort of done everything I wanted to do.’”

He said his father knew he could have stepped down from the bench 20 years ago and made millions in private practice doing arbitrations, but he didn’t care.

“He wasn’t in it for the money,” Justin Leinenweber said. “He wasn’t in it to have expensive watches and expensive cars. He loved what he did, and he said, ‘I’m gonna do it as long as I can.’ I really think he got everything out of his life. And he really had very few regrets.”

Harry Leinenweber, a Joliet native who served in the Illinois legislature before being nominated to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan, died at home Tuesday evening of complications from lung cancer, according to his family. He was 87.

Leinenweber, who just celebrated a birthday last week, had kept a very active schedule before announcing his health issues in his courtroom in January, presiding over the high-profile trials of singer R. Kelly in 2022 and the “ComEd Four” political corruption case last year.

He is survived by his wife, former U.S. Labor Secretary Lynn Martin, and seven children and stepchildren. Services are pending.

In a statement released Tuesday night, U.S. District Chief Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer called Leinenweber “a friend, mentor, and model jurist.”

“My colleagues and I are deeply saddened by Judge Leinenweber’s passing.  We hope for comfort and peace for his family,” Pallmeyer wrote.  “We thank his family for sharing him with us for over 39 years.”

Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wrote in a statement that she “had the honor” of appearing before Leinenweber many times over the course of her legal career, both in private practice and as an assistant U.S. attorney.

“He was a judge who clearly loved his job, even after many years on the bench, and he respected litigants,” Lightfoot said.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee and served with Leinenweber’s wife in the House of Representatives, said in a statement Wednesday that Leinenweber “was respected for his knowledge of the law and his reputation for fairness.”

”I always knew that he would bring that reputation to every assignment,” Durbin said. “He never disappointed.”

Known for his calm temperament and friendly demeanor, Leinenweber was respected by lawyers on both sides as a considerate jurist with an impeccable knowledge of the law.

“He was a giant who exuded such decency,” said attorney Daniel Collins of the Chicago-based firm  Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP. “He was a guy you wanted to be in front of, because you just know that whatever he decided, it was out of pure common sense.”

Collins said he got a window into Leinenweber’s humanity during the 2013 sentencing of David Coleman Headley for his role in planning the deadly 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, and a would-be attack on a newspaper in Denmark.

Collins, who at the time was the lead federal prosecutor on the case, said his team wanted Leinenweber to hear directly from the wife of the one American killed in the Mumbai attack, who lived in Chicago. He said Leinenweber took his time and spoke to her personally.

“He was genuinely moved by her expression of loss and description of what this attack did to her and her family,” Collins said. “I remember how well he handled that. It was incredibly emotional for everyone and he was just such a pro.”

A decade later, Leinenweber found himself presiding over another hot-button case, this time the #MeToo-era trial of Kelly, who stood accused of sexually abusing underage girls on videotape and then conspiring with his manager to cover up evidence.

Kelly’s lead attorney, Jennifer Bonjean, said she was struck by Leinenweber’s “remarkable” commitment to ensuring that everyone got a fair shake in his courtroom, as well as his refusal to “get on the bandwagon” when it came to a high-profile defendant like Kelly.

“He called balls and strikes as he saw them and let the attorneys duke it out,” she said. “As a trial attorney you had to respect that, because it doesn’t always occur.”

One particular moment came up early in the trial, when Leinenweber sided with Kelly’s attorneys on several claims that prosecutors had intentionally struck Black jurors from the panel.

“He put three people of color back on that jury,” Bonjean said, adding that it was rare for attorneys to win one such challenge, let alone three. “It showed he understood that R. Kelly was entitled to a jury of his peers. …I’ve never seen anything like that.”

Always known for his dry wit, Leinenweber capped off that contentious day of jury selection by telling the attorneys to enjoy what was left of their evening.

“I’m going to have a martini in a short while,” he said.

Bonjean said Leinenweber was “fearless” about his rulings and didn’t care how they would play in the news or public opinion. But he always had a soft side, particularly for good lawyering.

At one point in the Kelly trial, Bonjean said she was worried after requesting a mistrial for what seemed maybe like one time too many. But during a sidebar, Leinenweber reassured her that he got it.

“He said, ‘Ms. Bonjean, don’t ever apologize for doing your job,’” she said.

Leinenweber was born in Joliet on June 3, 1937, graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1959 and earned his law degree from the University of Chicago in 1962.

Leinenweber formed his own private practice in his hometown and served as town counsel for several area cities until being elected to the Illinois General Assembly in 1973.

Two years after returning to the law in 1983, Leinenweber was preparing to take a deposition when he got word from his secretary that the president of the United States had called and asked to speak with him.

“I direct-dialed the President of the United States,” Leinenweber told his son for an article in the Illinois State Bar Association in 2014. “President Reagan said ‘Harry, I was about to sign a commission appointing you as a federal district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, but I thought I better get your permission first. Do I have it?’ And I stumbled out ‘yes you do.’”

Leinenweber was confirmed as a district judge in December 1985. Over his nearly 40 years on the bench, Leinenweber oversaw many of the city’s most significant trials, from political corruption to terrorism and gang cases like Gangster Disciples boss Larry Hoover.

Off the bench, Leinenweber enjoyed being surrounded by friends and family. And he was always telling stories.

Among the yarns Leinenweber liked to spin involved the time he was at a conference for new judges that was being held in the South, according to his son Justin, who is also an attorney. Breakfast had always been Leinenweber’s most important meal of the day, and he lauded the plate he was served: eggs sunny side up, bacon, toast, and, of course, grits.

Leinenweber said he told a judge from Alabama that the grits made it a great southern breakfast. The Alabama judge put down his fork and shot back, “That’s not a southern breakfast. A southern breakfast is squirrel.”

“He had no enemies. He really didn’t. He just cared about people,” Justin Leinenweber said. “He cared about the law, and he just wanted to do right by people and do right by the profession. It just meant so much to him to be a judge. I think that singular thing, other than his family, he was most proud of and it was just the perfect fit for him.”

That passion seemed to seep into every interaction Leinenweber had at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse, be it his law clerks, attorneys, defendants, other judges, or even jurors who were selected to sit in his courtroom.

Chicago defense attorney Steve Greenberg said he was representing then-accused wife killer Drew Peterson in state court and had never met Leinenweber when the judge approached him one time in the cafeteria of the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse and started asking all sorts of questions about the case.

“He was the kind of guy where you would feel like you were just sitting on the barstool next to him and having a chat,” Greenberg said. “He was one of the nicest, most unpretentious people you could ever meet.”

Robert Garnes, one of the jurors in “ComEd Four” case involving an alleged effort by utility executives and lobbyists to bribe then-House Speaker Michael Madigan, said he was so impressed by Leinenweber’s quiet control of his courtroom that he hopes to write a book someday about the experience.

“There were so many moments where I thought he was going to slam down his gavel and yell, “Order in the court!’ just like on TV,” Garnes said. “But he never did, even when things got nasty (between the lawyers) and I thought fights were going to break out.”

Garnes said that after the trial ended with them unanimously finding all four defendants guilty, he was one of a handful of jurors who stuck around to talk to Leinenweber about what they all just collectively went through.

“He came back to the jury room and shook our hands and thanked us for our courageousness,” Garnes said. “He said he was proud of us. I really appreciated that.”

Leinenweber had been scheduled to sentence the four defendants in the ComEd case — former CEO Anne Pramaggiore, internal lobbyist John Hooker, consultant Jay Doherty, and ex-lobbyist Michael McClain — in January, but those hearings were delayed first by the judge’s health issues and later by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that is due out later this month.

With Leinenweber’s passing, the case will be assigned to a new judge who will have to get up to speed on the details, which will likely further delay any final resolution.

Justin Leinenweber said that aside from his love of the law and his family, his dad was also a world-class Cubs fan. He had been hooked ever since his teacher in 1945 wheeled a radio into the classroom so they could listen to the game because she loved the team.

Decades later, Leinenweber’s law clerks would take the judge and his former clerks to a Cubs game to celebrate his birthday, his son said. “He loved those games and it meant so much to him to see his clerks and how they had all gone on to do so many incredible things.”

Justin Leinenweber said one of his favorite memories was taking his dad to Game 5 of the 2016 World Series at Wrigley Field.

“I swear we did not sit down the entire time,” he said. “Probably the biggest smile I ever saw on his face as the game went final and the Cubs were on their way to being World Champs.”

But in the end, his son said, Leinenweber “was a realist.”

“He always preferred ‘A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request’ to ‘Go Cubs Go,’” he said.

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