The Specter of Burge Again

This time, it's Madigan's office that collapses like a house of cards:

• Two longtime prison inmates whose convictions were linked to alleged torture by discredited former Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge will go free after prosecutors today decided not to pursue a new trial.
  
  Ronald Kitchen and Marvin Reeves earlier in the day had been granted a retrial by Cook County Circuit Judge Stanley Sacks on their convictions more than 18 years ago for the 1988 slayings of two women and three children in a Southwest Side home. Prosecutors said the five were suffocated or beaten because of a $1,250 cocaine debt owed Kitchen by one of the women.
  
  Late this morning, Illinois Assistant Atty. Gen. Richard Schwind told Criminal Court Presiding Judge Paul Biebel his office had decided after reviewing both cases that it could not sustain its burden of proof and said the state was dropping charges against both men.

Two women and THREE children. Children. They must have had some proof at some point. The one jagoff got FIVE life terms. But the minute someone brings up the bogeyman of "Buuuuuuurge," prosecutors get weak knees and shrunken testicles. Fuck it, go to trial with what you had 18 years ago. They might surprise themselves and win one. We'll bet $1,000 that Burge never touched a hair on either of these scumbags.

We suppose we should be happy these pieces of garbage were kept off the street for 18 years at the minimum, but we aren't. Some bottom feeder is going to attempt to make a bundle off of the taxpayers again. And two pieces of crap, who never would have earned a million dollars in two lifetimes, are looking at a payday after slaughtering five souls.