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PEORIA  – A trio of appellate court judges ordered that a Peoria man's post-conviction petition be reinstated and heard because his attorney failed to properly represent him.  The judges from the 3rd District Appellate Court in Ottawa wrote in a June 1 order that Shontel Diggins, now 45, should have a new attorney appointed and his case set for an as-yet unscheduled hearing under the state's Post Conviction Act. Diggins is serving a 50-year prison term after being sentenced in 1998 for aggravated battery with a firearm in connection with a July 16, 1995, incident at a North Valley club ...

Activity, can only use english to communicate, no international travel, no passport, needs to get mental health -- is that enough postconviction? >> the early release of john walker lind is a disgrace. he should have been sentenced to life without parole if not the death penalty. he will go free very soon. mike spann is still in arlington national cemetery. nothing can bring them back. the bureau of prisons ought to be on him like white on rice. if he violates the slightest of his terms of release he should be sent back to prison, where he should be spending the rest of his life. shannon: in y...

Let's discuss it in context. some people have strong views on the news. they might think based on everything we've been discussing, the fact of paul manafort, a lot of people don't think it's high especially given the busted criminal conduct post-conviction. having said that, the judge, the one person in charge of this decision, says that the 19 to 24-year range, which bob mueller's prosecutors referred to in their filing is, quote, quite high. any clue as to what he thinks then would be more reasonable? >> reporter: no, he hasn't given us that clue, aryi and i know a someone who has covered t...

Conspi conspiracy. apparently he didn't. as you know, ari, none of the major questions we have about paul manafort, whether he colluded and provided polling information that found its way to the russians, none of that is going to be answered in this hearing, but what is going to be answered is how long paul manafort is going to spend in prison, at least in this virginia case. as you said, the guidelines call for up to 24 years. nobody thinks ellis will go that high. it's not looking good for manafort. he seems to be losing on every key point that could argue for a lower sentence. >> what does ...

Moment moments when the judge takes the bench. 6:16 p.m. on the east coast and issues his fate, his verdict. jason, i want to be very clear about this humiliation. >> right. >> that's paul manafort's word. he says he's been humiliated. and i think in our system of crime and punishment the question is when, because clearly it wasn't there when he was first convicted. >> right. >> and he continued to fight it and did not take responsibility. and it wasn't when he pled out because, again, since then he has been found to be responsible for having continued to lie to prosecutors in a felonious mann...