As the Justice Department races to distance itself from the missteps in the prosecution of six anti-ICE protesters in Chicago, lawyers for those protesters — known as the “Broadview six” — are asking a federal judge to investigate the prosecutors who brought the case.
Lawyers for the group — which includes former Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh — filed a 27-page motion on Tuesday night laying out the reasons U.S. District Judge April Perry should appoint an independent investigator to look into the full extent of the prosecutors’ misconduct. The DOJ, they say, can’t be trusted to do it on its own.
Andrew Boutros, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, dropped the case with prejudice — citing significant “errors” in the grand jury presentations.