Rollbacks?

This is the first we've heard of this practice. Can anyone verify? Here's a couple of comments popping up here:

• Vote a NO to the Rollback judges at 26th and California. He's guilty. Shes's guilty. Then.....when no ones around....weeks later....at the sentencing hearing...Ummm...hrumph...umm...after further review I find him and her ..not guilty. What? What happened? ( later on in the day the poor citizen and the police officer see the guy and girl they thought got five years out in the street.) What? What happened? ....John Kass where are you??????????????????????????This is a new column in the making!!!!!!
  
  
• This happened to me, too. 3 years turned into time served while I wasn't looking. Can't remember the judge's name, Room 600 26th and Cal is where it was in June 2009. Agg Batt to PO while on probation.
  
  The quip about this new thing about rollback judges is so true, especially in the last 6 months at 26th and Cal. My partner and I had thought we did a very good job getting all inventories and being present in court when notified. The ASA's congratulated us on a job well done after the defendant was found guilty in a bench trial in one of the 3rd floor rooms. The judges name escapes me now. But I distinctly remember the court room being in on the 3rd floor. Now the kicker is when I get my disposition paper it is signed by the ASA saying thanks for your help but the defendant got a finding of not guilty. I thought I had read it in error but nope. I called the ASA and when she called me back, she told me that this is becoming a frequent thing. I explained to her why? The ASA said she thinks that it could be a sign of the times with the jails being overcrowded. Well....I call another ASA that I knew well from another courtroom and ask him. That ASA informs me that he is seeing this happen more and more to in 26th and Cal and believes off the record that envelopes are being passed. Good grief......so now are all judges suspect? What is going on. The ASA's gotta know something. A new law enacted recently that we don't know about? One thing after another at that 26th and Cal for sure.

We have heard from a reliable source that judges are under orders to dismiss dope cases under 1 gram unless certain hurdles are met, and the hurdles are damn steep. Not surprising actually. We've even read that there's a judge that approves search warrants, then finds no probable cause at preliminary hearings on her own warrants - how fucked up is that? But this "rollback" sounds fishy in the extreme.

Of course, it wouldn't be the first time judges went to jail in Cook County. We can only hope for more to head that way.