The government will review more than 1,000 grand jury cases in Chicago after federal prosecutors were forced to dismiss the case against the “Broadview Six” protesters because of prosecutorial misconduct.
Andrew Boutros, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, said his office will be reviewing prosecutorial conduct in “well over 1,000” cases going back as far as 2007, noting that it is an effort to regain confidence in the grand jury process.
“They will both be retroactive, looking at what happened in some cases going all the way back almost 20 years. It will cover everything that is happening now that’s pending in court,” Boutros said at a news conference in D.C.