CHICAGO-(AEAE) ILLINOIS CHIEF JUDGE OF COOK COUNTY TIMOTHY C. EVANS JOHN P. CALLAHAN AND JUDGE DANIEL GILLESPIE HAVE BEEN SUED in DuPage County Illinois for failure to maintain security in their court room See DuPage County Complaint.
There is also a Illinois Judicial Inquiry Complaint that has been filed against Judge Daniel Gillespie, Judge John P. Callahan and Judge Timothy C. Evans along with a Petition for Writ of Mandamus before the Illinois Supreme Court Case No. 125881.
Judge Daniel Gillespie has been a Cook County Judge for 30 years. A retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army who has supported gay rights in the military. Judge John P. Callahan Jr., has been on the bench for 10 years.
As grounds for the relief, Petitioner states on May 21, 2019 while in Cook County Court Room 2205 Opposing Counsel Brad Franco attacked the Petitioner while he was setting in his wheel chair. See a copy of the Judicial Inquiry Complaint[1] filed against Judge Gillespie and Judge Evans for their failure to provide security in a Cook County Court Room for disabled parties ie Petitioner Christopher Stoller and the Judicial Inquiry Board Complaint.
Notwithstanding the physical attack by Opposing Counsel Brad Franco on Christopher Stoller, Judge Gillespie fails to provide security, fails to have a sheriff present in his court room and allows Attorney Brad Franco who previously committed an assault and battery on Christopher Stoller on May 21, 2019 to continue to harass and to continue to intimate Christopher Stoller, a senior citizen, disable person in Judge Gillespie’s Cook County court Room.
The Chief Judge Timothy C. Evans of Cook County does not have a written policy which requires Judges to have security in Cook County Court Rooms to protect parties from assault and batteries. See Appendix 2 a Copy of a complaint filed in DuPage County Case No. 2020AR000151 incorporated herein by reference.
LEGAL DISCLAIMER: Judge Daniel Gillespie, Judge John P. Callahan, Judge Timothy Evans, Attorney Brad Franco deny all charges against them which are only allegations and the Respondents are considered innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.
Photos below of Cook County Illinois Judge Daniel Gillespie, Judge John P. Callahan Jr.,
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