How does the author know this? Maybe he refused to drop the case because he had information he honestly believed in that pointed to guilt? It later says Burris was never accused of wrongdoing in this case. This seems like a smear.
In her resignation letter, Kenney ( the lawyer who resigned rather than prosecute the case) claimed Burris had “seen fit to ignore the evidence in this case.”
When the Assistant District Attorney you assigned to look into the case tells you there is no case, overruling her falls nowhere near "honestly believed"
by the that time, everybody and their brother knew Cruz & Hernandez had been railroded.
Dugan had already offered to confess, if the the death penalty was taken off the table. ( Prosecutor refused the deal ).
Back then, Burris’ stance was not a big deal. All of a sudden, today, it IS a big deal.