If It Looks Like a Duck....

...walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, it's probably a duck.

Same thing if it looks like a cover-up:

• The decision by the Cook County state’s attorney’s office not to charge a nephew of Mayor Daley in the one-punch death of 21-year-old David Koschman in 2004 hung largely on the fact that witnesses couldn’t positively identify the nephew, Richard J. “R.J.” Vanecko, in a police lineup, according to prosecutors.

  State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez and the Chicago Police Department have refused to release photographs, though, of that lineup and of a second lineup in which witnesses identified two other men as being there with Vanecko when he threw the punch in a drunken confrontation on Division Street at Dearborn in the early morning hours of April 25, 2004.

  Now, the police are asking Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office — where one of the two retired detectives who supervised those lineups now works — to ensure that those pictures, as well as some other records, aren’t made public.

The Department is asking Lisa Madigan (who unilaterally decided that FOID records are all part of the public record and that gun owners have no expectation of privacy) to seal investigative records - records that are pretty much obliged to be released to the defense in any criminal prosecution and are pretty much discoverable in any civil action.

We foresee many lawyers charging by the hour getting rich off of these court battles.