Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, although convicted of second-degree murder, by a bizarre quirk in Illinois law faces a higher mandatory minimum sentence than a defendant convicted of the more serious offense of first-degree murder with a firearm.Even though Laquan McDonald died from the gunshots that resulted in a murder conviction, Van Dyke’s sentence will be largely based upon the almost metaphysical question of how many of those same gunshots “severely injured” McDonald, rather than more …