A man who was found guilty for acting as the lookout in a double homicide nearly three decades ago is asking the Illinois Supreme Court to find his mandatory life
Updated 5/11/2021 5:57 PM
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced Tuesday that a Kendall County judge had found a registered sex offender who had been convicted twice during the 1990s to be a sexually violent person.
Judge John F. McAdams ordered 61-year-old Steven Casper to remain in the custody of the Illinois Department of Human Services for treatment.
Casper will be returned to a state hospital and detention facility in downstate Rushville.
Casper was convicted in 1999 of criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sexual abuse and was sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually assaulting nine students who received private music lessons from him.
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Facebook said the company will consult with child development specialists. (David Allen/Patch)
CHICAGO Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined 44 other attorneys general in asking Facebook to stop developing Instagram Kids for children under 13.
Raoul cited concerns of cyberbullying and predators in a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Monday. The letter follows concerns from lawmakers that social media and increased screen time from online learning have been detrimental to young kids.
BuzzFeed News was the first to report that Facebook, which owns Instagram, was considering making a version of the image-sharing app for kids based on internal documents obtained by reporters.
CITY HALL HACK ‘SHOCKING’ DEATH OF A STAR-CHITECT ALD. MOORE JOINS SOS RACE
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A huge cache of internal emails from City Hall was hacked by a third party and made public Friday, revealing the inner workings of Mayor
Lori Lightfoot’s administration in Chicago.
The select group of emails had been given to the Jones Day law firm as part of an inquiry into how the police raid on Anjanette Young’s home had been handled. The law firm transferred them to a third party as part of that investigation using a data software service when the emails were swiped. “The breach . at no time involved or impacted the city’s computers or computer system,” according to a statement from the city.
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The federal appeals court in Chicago has upheld a decision granting a new trial for a 42-year-old man serving a life sentence for murder.
Julius Evans was convicted of killing Moatice Williams in a drive-by shooting on Aug. 23, 1996 in the 3800 block of West Washington Avenue.
In a rare opinion, a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 Wednesday to uphold a federal judge’s decision to overturn Evans’ conviction in state court.
“Here they concluded what the state court did was not reasonable based on the prosecutor’s misconduct in the closing arguments,” said Evans’ attorney Mark Schneider, a partner in the law firm Kirkland & Ellis, which represented Evans for free.