True or not, They were legend, and legend can be stronger than truth. It was Chicago, not Bushnell, after all, and everybody knew the stories about cops on the take. He was so sure of his final argument that he objected to the guilty plea on the grounds that he was only 10 minutes away from a guilty verdict.'' ''Most prosecutors would jump at the chance to get a guilty plea in a case, but not Danny. But right when he was beginning his final argument to the jury, the defendant indicated that he wanted to change his plea to guilty,'' Kocoras recalls. Kocoras remembers one case in which Webb was attempting to convict a man of stealing from an interstate shipment, a fairly routine cartage-theft case, but one in which Webb was totally immersed. Every day was a learning experience.Īnd Webb was one of the most aggressive in the office, enjoying the trial work that he`d aimed for since his early high-school days in Bushnell.
attorney`s office, Webb worked with Chuck Kocoras, Ty Fahner, and Tex Griffin in the receiving office, getting the raw cases as they came in the door, trying as many as 30 jury cases in that time, and working on appeals briefs at night, when the court day was over.
