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He was a member of the X-Rated Critics Organization's Hall of Fame. [5] He spent two and a half years in prison (2009–2011), convicted in a trial for obscenity.
Juan A. Rivera Jr. (born October 31, 1972) is an American man who was wrongfully convicted three times for the 1992 rape and murder of 11-year-old Holly Staker in Waukegan, Illinois. He was convicted twice on the basis of a confession that he said was coerced. No physical evidence linked him to the crime scene.
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Nov 25, 2011 · When he was sent to jail that September for violating his home confinement, Rivera repeated his friend’s story, putting himself at the party to protect her, because she had an outstanding...
Jun 4, 2021 · When 18-year-old Jon Watts woke up in his prison cell after being sentenced to six-and-a-half years, he knew something needed to change. His life could quite easily have gone one of two ways -...
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May 18, 2016 · Juan Rivera, who was profiled in a November 27 New York Times Magazine article, was freed from prison in early January after an Appeals Court overturned his conviction. Rivera gave a confession to police after almost 24 hours of intense interrogation.
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Judge Christopher C. Starck sentenced Rivera to life in prison without parole. In 1996, the Illinois Appellate Court reversed that conviction based on a series of improper rulings by Starck that had crippled Rivera’s right to defend himself at trial. Two years later, Rivera again was tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison by Starck.
