"The Petitioners, Lawrence E. Kennon, Mary D. Powers, and Mary L. Johnson, all
three of whom are
citizens of Illinois and residents of Cook County, together with Citizens Alert,
the Coalition to End Police Torture and Brutality, First Defense Legal Aid, the
Justice Coalition of Greater Chicago, the Cook County Bar Association, the
Chicago Council of Lawyers, the Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under
Law, Inc., the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, the Illinois Coalition Against
the Death Penalty, the Illinois Death Penalty Moratorium Project, the National
Lawyers Guild, Amnesty International, and Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, by their
attorneys, Randolph N. Stone, of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic of the University
of Chicago Law School, and Locke E. Bowman, of the MacArthur Justice Center,
respectfully request that this Court appoint a special
prosecutor
to investigate
allegations of
torture, perjury, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and
other offenses by police officers under the command of Jon Burge at Area 2 and
later Area 3 headquarters in the City of Chicago during the period from 1973 to
the present."