![]() The man–Lucky–had been shot in the back of the head and neck. Early on a September morning in 1986 someone flagged down a police officer and directed him to a man lying in an alley near Roosevelt and Pulaski. ![]() That will change if he’s convicted today of murdering Leroy “Lucky” Wade. He’s doing life on the installment plan, as lawyers and judges in the courthouse like to say. He has convictions for attempted murder, armed robbery, and numerous gun and drug offenses, but his longest stretch behind bars has been just under six years. Since then he’s known only three months of total freedom the rest of the time he’s been in jail awaiting trial, out on bond, in prison, on probation, or on parole. Six weeks later he was arrested for armed robbery. On this August afternoon, in the Cook County Criminal Courthouse, at 26th and California, prosecutors are once again trying to get a firm grip on him.īo Diddley turned 17–adult age under Illinois criminal law–on September 3, 1976. ![]() Now 45, Bo Diddley has spent nearly his entire adult life in the hands of the criminal justice system–or slipping through its fingers. He’s been a brutal lieutenant for a notorious gang, though he says he’s through with all that, a notion that makes police and prosecutors roll their eyes. But for years Jettie “Bo Diddley” Williams has cast a long shadow on the west side. The man in the tan jail uniform at the defense table in Courtroom 404 is short–five-foot-one from his cornrows to his white sneakers. Best of Chicago 2022: Sports & Recreation.Best of Chicago 2022: Music & Nightlife.
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