I-Team sources say former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is in a halfway house, but Pritzker's office says he is in IDOC custody.
to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland asking for information about the status of a federal civil rights investigation of Van Dyke's conduct. That investigation has been underway for more than six years.
"If the federal government thought it had a slam dunk case, we'd probably see it brought by now. These are difficult cases to bring and they're probably working their way through it very careful," said ABC7 legal analyst Gil Soffer. The former U.S. prosecutor was asked about the kind of pressure a letter like this would bring.
"A letter, yeah, like this, does apply pressure to the attorney general, but you're not going to see the attorney general or the U.S. Attorney's Office bring charges unless they're supportable and unless they think they can prevail beyond a reasonable doubt-- that no matter what kind of letter they receive, they have to be able to satisfy themselves," said Soffer.
"The sentence that was put down for Jason Van Dyke does not meet the crime. And if there's an ability to do something about it on the federal level then by all means something should be done," said Foxx. There is no statute of limitations for federal prosecutors to file civil rights violations in a murder case. But the facts of this case haven't changed since 2014 and experts explain that practically speaking, if the feds plan to charge Van Dyke, they are not likely to wait for him to be freed from the state system.
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