Matthew Hendrickson

In December, an appeals court upheld the actor’s conviction and sentence for lying to Chicago police about being the victim of a hate crime in a staged attack.

She’s easily ahead in the suburbs, while Harris has a narrow edge in Chicago. On Friday, thanks to the counting of mail ballots from Chicago voters, Harris had a net gain of 1,366 votes.

Jamal Joiner, 29, and Rasheed Martin, 28, each faced one count of murder for killing Amari when they opened fire on a crowded street on the Fourth of July.

The Cook County State’s Attorney said Tuesday’s historically low turnout was “deeply concerning,” saying that it “tells me that we have an electorate that has not been engaged and that’s very troubling, not just for the state’s attorney’s race, but for our democracy as a whole.”

“The only motivation here seems to be, I want that rifle. And now three people are dead,” Judge Kelly McCarthy said while ordering Antonio Velasco detained.

Some 100,000 votes or more are still to be counted in the close race, including votes cast in 11 Chicago precincts and mail-in ballots.

Eileen O’Neill Burke, who stepped down from a seat on the appellate court to run for state’s attorney, took an early lead against her opponent Clayton Harris III.

Officials have struggled to explain why Crosetti Brand, 37, was released from the Stateville Correctional Center on Tuesday — a day before the attack — after he had been sent back to prison earlier this year for menacing the woman while on parole.

Brothers Reginald Henderson and Sean Tyler were convicted of a 1994 murder in Back of the Yards but say they were tortured by detectives working under Chicago Police Cmdr. Jon Burge.