ANOTHER CASE OF CORRUPT PROSECUTORS WHO JUST WON'T ADMIT THAT THEY WERE WRONG

I mentioned the case in more detail on 13th June

A 54-year-old former death row inmate has asked the Illinois Prisoner Review Board to recommend to the governor that the slayings of two people be erased from his record. But the Appellate Prosecutor's Office told the board yesterday that it needs a few more months [They have already had 20 years!] to decide whether to retry Gordon "Randy" Steidl.

Steidl was the 18th person since Illinois reinstated the death penalty in 1977 to be freed because of a wrongful conviction after serving time on Illinois' death row. A federal judge ruled in June 2003 that the jury that convicted him of the 1986 murders of newlyweds Dyke and Karen Rhoads of Paris did not hear all the evidence. Steidl is seeking a pardon from Governor Rod Blagojevich (bluh-GOY'-uh-vitch). But prosecutors have said he Steidl still a suspect in the case.

Report here



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