‘We’re going to keep fighting’: Judge denies man a new trial even as prosecutors don’t oppose motion

Family members of a man who says he was wrongfully convicted of murder filled a courtroom gallery at the Leighton Criminal Court Building Monday waiting to hear if he would be coming home.

They felt they had reasons to be hopeful: Cook County prosecutors were not opposing the motion to vacate a murder conviction for Kevin Jackson, who is serving a 45-year sentence for a 2001 fatal shooting at a Southwest Side gas station. And a review of the case by special prosecutors hired to examine...