Jon Seidel
Federal Courts Reporter, @chicago.suntimes.com
- NEW: The @chicago.suntimes.com and @wbez.org have published a 12-minute excerpt of our interview with Marimar Martinez, in which she describes being shot by Border Patrol in Chicago. You can find it here: youtu.be/mCO4vI_KH1w?...
- A federal jury last month cleared Chicago's Juan Espinoza Martinez of a murder plot aimed at Greg Bovino. The next day, he was arrested by Homeland Security as he was being released from jail. That's according to court docs from his new fight for freedom: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
- NEW: A federal judge in Indiana has ordered the Trump administration not to deport Juan Espinoza Martinez, the Chicago man acquitted last month of offering $10,000 for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino. Story from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
- The feds respond.They say they're concerned about the release of evidence in the Broadview conspiracy case because "given the current climate, it will be very difficult to pick an unbiased jury." (Defendants say they've already agreed not to release info that would identify agents.)
- Chicago's Broadview conspiracy defendants give Judge April Perry an update on negotiations over an order governing evidence in their case: They say the feds want "to summarily prohibit all Defendants and Defendants' counsel from using, discussing, or disseminating any and all" info from the case.
- Kat Abughazaleh has an election coming up — and a trial, it seems. But she's one of six defendants in Chicago's Broadview conspiracy case. So here's my latest on USA v. Michael Rabbitt, Kat Abughazaleh, Andre Martin, Cat Sharp, Brian Straw, and Joselyn Walsh: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
- Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths 'I am their voice' NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
