What the Record Establishes
- The record: a verified petition swearing “committed” a felony that the same page calls pending — later dismissed.
- Documented act: Signed a verified petition stating the defendant “committed: A Class 4 Felony”.
- Same-page contradiction: The identical page describes the Cook County matter as pending.
What They Have Not Produced
- Microsoft 365 tenant audit-log entries for the mailbox that stopped accepting mail.
- Entra ID lifecycle events, retention policy, and litigation-hold status for that account.
- What personal knowledge supported the verified 'committed' certification.
- Every plea-negotiation communication in native form with headers intact.
The Power This Office Actually Holds
An Assistant State's Attorney decides what is charged, what is offered, and what is sworn to. This office also controls the plea terms a defendant is asked to weigh, and the consequences attached to refusing them.
- Signs verified petitions that can produce custody warrants
- Controls plea offers and the consequences of refusal
- Owes constitutional disclosure duties before a plea is taken
- Custodian of the county mailbox holding the case communications
One page of one petition holds both the oath and its contradiction. Assistant State’s Attorney Francis P. DeRosa IV signed the verification on a Petition to Revoke Pre-Trial Release that swears the defendant “committed: A Class 4 Felony.” The same page describes the referenced Cook County charge as pending. It was later dismissed on the State’s own motion. No trial, plea, or finding ever supported the word “committed.”
The conduct the filings charge
Under 735 ILCS 5/1-109, a knowingly false statement in a verified pleading is perjury — a Class 3 felony in Illinois — and the federal referral places the certification under 18 U.S.C. § 1621. The verification page carries a signature, and the signature carries a question the record has yet to hear answered: what personal knowledge supported that oath?
Why the immunity shield does not reach it
Kalina v. Fletcher, 522 U.S. 118 (1997), is unambiguous: a prosecutor who personally certifies facts under oath acts as a complaining witness, not an advocate, and forfeits absolute immunity for that act. The full analysis — and the 42-page Exhibit V referral — is set out in The Kalina Line.
Check it yourself
The verified “committed” language, the same-page “pending” description, and the later dismissal are all published here with citations into the stamped record. This audit requires no trust in the site — only the ability to read two lines of the State’s own document and see that they cannot both be true.
Still Not Produced
Each of these records exists inside a government system. Each has been requested. None has been supplied.
- Microsoft 365 tenant audit-log entries for the mailbox that stopped accepting mail.
- Entra ID lifecycle events, retention policy, and litigation-hold status for that account.
- What personal knowledge supported the verified 'committed' certification.
- Every plea-negotiation communication in native form with headers intact.
If any of it is produced, or if Francis P. DeRosa IV disputes a documented fact on this page, the response will be published here in full, with its date. Read the correction standard.
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