(17.3.2017) Myles, an associate judge in Cook County Circuit Court‘s Criminal Division, is a longtime jurist who has been involved in several high-profile cases. The two suspects in the infamous murder of seven people at a Brown‘s Chicken in Palatine appeared before Myles shortly after their 2002 arrests, and Myles was the judge who ordered William Balfour to be held without bond in the 2008 killings of three relatives of singer Jennifer Hudson.