The Cook County State’s Attorney’s office has objected to an effort by Kevin Jackson to obtain a certificate of innocence in the case, a move that comes some 20 years after his original conviction and a year after he was ordered released from prison.

Despite the findings of another special prosecutor and the state appellate court that released Jackson, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke’s office last week said evidence still points to Jackson’s guilt in a fatal 2001 shooting at a South Side gas station.

“Even though the Appellate Court found that the reinvestigation report raised enough questions about petitioner’s convictions to warrant a new trial, and even though the People elected to dismiss the charges rather than conducting a second trial, it is clear that the trial

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