Bolt From Above

No hint that this was coming. Not even a whisper:

• In a surprise twist Wednesday, attorneys for an Oak Lawn man on trial on charges of killing a drug customer he believed had robbed him blamed a former Chicago police officer for the murder, saying he was extorting thousands of dollars in protection money from the defendant.
  
  In opening remarks at the trial of Daniel Nevarez, his lawyer contended that Chicago cop Jerome Finnigan had sought payment from Nevarez only to learn he had been robbed of $40,000 in cash and about 4 ½ pounds of marijuana and couldn't come up with the money.
  
  Nevarez's attorney, Stuart Goldberg, said Finnigan suspected Eric Kaminski, a drug customer of Nevarez's, after a print found at the home matched Kaminski. On Finnigan's instructions, Nevarez arranged for Kaminski to meet him at the home of Nevarez's father in the 2200 block of West Coulter Avenue, Goldberg told jurors.
  
  When Kaminski arrived in February 2004, Finnigan shot him, to the horror of Nevarez, Goldberg alleged.
  
  "He said, 'What the [expletive] did you just do? You killed someone in my father's house,'" Goldberg quoted Nevarez as saying. "Officer Finnigan dug the bullets out, as an experienced person would do, and said, 'Dig him a grave, [expletive], or you're going to be the next one.'"

At the bond hearing in January 2008, the defense blamed Kamiski's girlfriend for the killing to cover up an alleged affair she was having with Nevarez. Now out of left field, this crap? We certainly expect to see some proof of this defense allegation - we're pretty sure that lawyers, while expected to defend their clients to the best of their abilities, aren't allowed to make up bullshit in an effort to create reasonable doubt. If proven, this would put this scandal beyond anything Chicago has ever experienced.