Patrick v. City of Chicago

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

Jeffrey Cole, UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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Mr. Patrick has filed a motion to compel the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (“SAO”) to produce almost 300 pages of documents that it withheld from production on the grounds of the work product doctrine and the deliberative process privilege. [Dkt. # 102]. The facts are these.

In early February 2014, Daniel Taylor filed a Complaint in this court alleging that he, Deon Patrick, and four others had been coerced into confessing to a brutal double murder that they, did not commit. As a consequence of the alleged…