The gun court plan that Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle said she wanted to implement by July 1 is on its way to the grave, according to the Chicago Sun Times.
Preckwinkle said she had told Cook County Commissioner John Fritchey, who was pushing for the court, that a committee would “look into” the plan.
The project would have created a special court to make punishment for illegal gun possession more “predictable and efficient,” according to Fritchey.
However, after recent County Board meeting, Preckwinkle told reporters that the committee discovered that it was “not such a good idea.” She said, “We discovered that there was no support for it in the judiciary, no support from the state’s attorney, no support from the public defender, no support from our probation people.”
