Charges were dropped Wednesday against two of the three men accused of killing an off-duty Chicago police officer in 2011, the latest twist in a case marred by allegations of misconduct by police and prosecutors.
Tyrone Clay faced nearly 80 felony counts and Edgardo Colon was charged with 18 counts in connection with the fatal shooting of veteran Officer Clifton Lewis during the robbery of an Austin convenience store.
The dismissal comes a week after the state's attorney's office had filed a motion seeking to bar testimony from Andrew Varga, a longtime prosecutor often assigned to high-profile cases, and Nancy Adduci, a respected assistant state's attorney who was removed from her post as head of the office's Conviction Integrity Unit last year.
Lewis was shot the night of Dec. 29, 2011 as he confronted two armed men while working off-duty as security at M Clay had yet to go to trial, in part because of a lengthy appeal by prosecutors of a judge's ruling that barred Clay's confession, finding that he also had repeatedly asked police for a lawyer before he gave his incriminating statement.
Among those files was an FBI analysis of cell tower data that indicated the three men were not at the crime scene when Lewis was killed. Also not turned over were reports on hundreds of interviews conducted by police with members of the Spanish Cobras street gang in the weeks after the shooting - an investigation dubbed "Operation Snake Doctor."
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