Prosecutors used personal email addresses in communications with police to deliberately try to withhold evidence in the long-running case of an off-duty Chicago officer, attorneys alleged in a motion this week.
Chicago police officers salute their fallen comrade outside United Missionary Baptist Church after the funeral service for Officer Clifton Lewis in Chicago on Jan. 5, 2012.
Asked for comment on the allegations, a spokesperson for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office declined, saying the office does not comment on pending cases. During a hearing Monday, prosecutors asked the judge for more time to review some of the documents cited in the motion for sanctions before they file a written response in a few weeks.
In the motion, attorneys say Varga in August of 2012 sent two CPD detectives an email using a private email address that referenced an analysis of cell tower data. He copied Adduci on her personal address. But defense attorneys argue in the motion that the 2012 cell tower analysis was not produced to the defense until earlier this year.
The motion said the judge has the authority to end the case if there has been a denial of due process, but it asked the judge to “at a bare minimum” disqualify Adduci and Varga from the case, order them to turn over their phones and computers for a forensic examination and produce documents on the cell tower analysis.
Meanwhile, attorneys said they were working on an effort at the federal level to obtain certain documents. Federal prosecutors earlier this month objected to the release of some materials, saying they were covered by a rule guarding the secrecy of documents related to federal grand jury investigations.
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