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Feb 23, 2024 · DECATUR, Ill. (WCIA) — A murder case that led to a murder conviction for a man and his parents is getting reopened more than 20 years later. In 2002, Michael Slover Jr. and his parents, Michael Slover Sr. and Jeanette Slover, were found guilty of murdering Slover Jr.’s ex-wife, Karyn Slover in 1996. Now, the lawyers from the UIS Innocence ...
Aug 29, 2024 · On June 19, Michael Broadway struggled to breathe inside his cell at Stateville Correctional Center, a dilapidated Illinois state prison about 40 miles southwest of Chicago. Outside, temperatures ...
CHICAGO, IL — After he spent 20 years behind bars, Matt Sopron's double murder conviction has been overturned. After two co-defendants gave new testimony on the 1995 killing of two 13-year-old ...
Dec 19, 2018 · December 18, 2018 / 6:36 PM CST / CBS Chicago. CHICAGO (CBS) -- A man who spent more than 20 years in prison for ordering a hit on a van that killed two teenage girls in 1995 was released from ...
Dec 25, 2022 · Both JHA and the Chicago-based Uptown People’s Law Center (UPLC) receive letters every winter from people incarcerated in dangerously cold prisons in Illinois. UPLC Executive Director Alan Mills told Truthout that complaints come most frequently from the state’s three maximum-security prisons, the newest of which was built in the 1920s.
Dec 19, 2018 · Published December 19, 2018 • Updated on December 19, 2018 at 7:11 am. A Chicago man who spent 20 years in prison for a 1995 double murder of two eighth-grade girls in a hail of gunfire is free ...
Dec 20, 2018 · Matt Sopron, 45, was released from prison Tuesday after more than 20 years. Witnesses testified he ordered a 1995 gang hit that mistakenly took the lives of two 13-year-old girls—Carrie Hovel ...
