Anita? Wake Up!

The State's Attorney's office seems to be in a bit of disarray:

• After he was arrested last weekend, a man suspected in a crime spree in which two women were killed told police he would have killed many more people if he had not been caught, a police source said Friday.

  Even then, the Cook County state's attorney's office waited more than a day to charge him because authorities had not been able to interview him -- leading police to use a rarely used code allowing them to file charges on their own.

Finally, the tendency for the ASA's to try every case over the phone or in the Detective Areas is coming home to bite them in the ass. A double murderer was technically "free to leave" when the State insisted on interviewing him.

He's in a coma in the hospital under the influence of who knows what painkillers after being shot. And even if he wasn't, any defense attorney representing this piece of garbage isn't going to allow him to be interviewed under any circumstances.

So why the delay in charging? Politics. Pure and simple. And the citizens suffer.