McCall v. Devine

How courts have described this case

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• finding alleged impropriety was too remote, as it involved State’s Attorney’s office’s relationship with police department
• finding alleged impropriety was too remote, as it involved State's Attorney's office's relationship with police department
• “[I]t has been held that the duties of the State’s Attorney require an investigation into the facts of an incident.”
• the contents of newspaper articles are hearsay and therefore inadmissible
• “It is settled that the State’s Attorney, as a member of the executive branch of government, is vested with exclusive discretion in the initiation and management of a criminal prosecution. [Citations.]’ ” (Internal quotation marks omitted.)
• “To require [the petitioner] to plead and prove anything less than such -8- specific facts would open the door to requiring a special prosecutor to be appointed any time a police officer is suspected of wrongdoing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).