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convinced 3.con.0002002 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire
Saturday, November 14, 2009 - 12:14 PM
Andrew Kokoraleis was scheduled to be executed on March 17, 1999.   Last-ditch efforts were made on his behalf with then-Illinois Governor George Ryan, and Supreme Court Justice Moses Harrison was persuaded to order a stay of execution, as well as calling for a moratorium on all executions in Illinois. 
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In fact, thanks to a series of crusading articles in the Chicago Tribune about injustices in the legal system, twelve people had recently been exonerated
sickert 99.sic.991991 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire
Sunday, November 08, 2009 - 4:36 PM
Walter Sickert (1860-1942), a very highly regarded British painter, has become a semi celebrity this year, as American crime novelist Patricia Cornwell has made him the subject of her new book Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper Case Closed. "I do believe 100 per cent that the artist Walter Sickert was Jack the Ripper," she said.

For anyone who follows Ripper scholarship, this event by itself a big ho hum. Dozens of writers promoting dozens of books over more than 10 decades have claimed
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Sunday, November 01, 2009 - 3:13 PM

The First Lady

When Charles Cross walked through Whitechapel's Buck's Row just before four in the morning Friday, August 31, 1888, it was dark and seemingly deserted. It was chilly and damp, not unusual for London even in the summer, especially before dawn. He saw something that looked like a tarpaulin lying on the ground before the entrance to a stable yard.

As he walked closer, he saw it was a woman lying on her back, her skirts lifted almost to her waist. He
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