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According to a new report, Chicago Attorney Kim Foxx was summoned to a hearing as a result of his handling of the Jussie Smollett case.
The Cook County attorney was summoned by a retired judge who asked for the appointment of a special prosecutor to look into how Foxx handled the controversial case, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
Former Appellate Judge Sheila O'Brien also summoned Foxx's top representative, Joseph Magats, and filed a document requesting that Smollett appear at the hearing, the report said.
Foxx was heavily fired when his office suddenly dropped 16 charges for disorderly conduct against the Empire chain actor. Smollett, who is black and homosexual, has been accused of having organized an attack for hate crime against himself for his personal benefit and to have lied to the police about it.
O'Brien said Foxx's handling of the case was "flawed."
"Foxx's dispute in this case is indisputable," O'Brien wrote, adding that Foxx should have sought the appointment of a special prosecutor. "Instead, Foxx misled the public into believing that the Smollett case was treated as another pursuit and without influence."
The former judge asked Foxx and Magats to produce all the original documents of the case to prove "that they were not tampered with or destroyed and will not be destroyed while at along this case. "
The Foxx office is also being investigated by an independent Inspector General on how it handled the case. Three members of his team, including his chief of ethics and his spokesperson, left the office.
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