Chicago Appleseed Receives Grant from the Chicago Community Trust for Criminal Justice Project

On May 20, 2005, Chicago Appleseed received a $50,000 grant from the Chicago Community Trust to be used in conducting our examination of the criminal justice system in Cook County.

The project involves identifying problems and proposing meaningful solutions relating to lawyering and judicial performance. The focus of this project includes the Cook County State's Attorney's Office, the Cook County Public Defender's Office, private defense practitioners, and judges. Presiding Judge Paul Beibel, Jr., Cook County State's Attorney Richard Devine, and Cook County Public Defender Ed Burnette are cooperating with the project.

The Advisory Committee for the project includes:

• Professor Albert Altschuler (University of Chicago Law School)
• Professor Susan Bandes (DePaul University College of Law)
• Locke E. Bowman (Chicago Council of Lawyers)
• Daniel Coyne (IIT-Chicago Kent College of Law)
• Hon. Lou Garippo (retired Cook County Circuit Judge)
• Robert L. Graham (Jenner & Block)
• Michael Howlett, Jr.(Loyola University Law School and Counsel to Cook County State’s Attorney Richard Devine)
• Richard Kling (IIT-Chicago Kent College of Law)
• Hon. Patricia Mendoza
• Professor Randolph N. Stone (University of Chicago Law School and former Cook County Public Defender)
• Hon. Earl Strayhorn (retired Cook County Circuit Judge)

For more information about the project, please contact
Malcolm Rich (312-988-6552 or caffj@chicagoappleseed.org).