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"He was a great legal writer and frankly one of the greatest legal minds of his generation," Porter County Chief Public Defender Ken Elwood said.
"I'm tired of my department having this tarnish on the badge," said Dave Crane, the Republican nominee for Lake County sheriff.
Lake County commissioners have agreed to pay $180,000 to relatives of Jon O. Breitweiser to dismiss their civil suit seeking unspecified monetary damages.
Dave Crane, of Cedar Lake, filed the necessary paperwork to get on the general election ballot Tuesday after no other Republican sought the party's nomination for sheriff in the May
After 10 years of federal oversight and no inmate suicides, three people incarcerated at the Lake County Jail took their own lives in 2020 and 2022, records showed.