Police shooting case settled for $2.4 million

Chicago taxpayers will spend nearly $2.4 million to compensate the family of a 27-year-old black motorist who was shot to death by police after a 2011 traffic stop in Englewood - a case that prompted a federal judge to sanction a city attorney for withholding evidence.

The settlement with the family of Darius Pinex is on Monday's agenda of the City Council's Finance Committee.

It comes nearly one year after U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang reversed a jury's decision that found Officers Gildardo Sierra and Raoul Mosqueda did not wrongfully kill Pinex and ordered a new trial.

Chang found that city attorneys engaged in misconduct when they failed to turn over a key recording of a police radio transmission to lawyers for the Pinex family.

Jordan Marsh, an attorney for the city, knew about the recording before the first trial, the judge ruled.

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