Legal Opinion
Ralph Foster Jackson, Jr. v. Thomas P. Roth
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 20, 1994No. 93-3645PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
In 1981, Ralph Jackson, who was then 29 years old and had no previous criminal record, was convicted in an Illinois state court of having raped a woman whom we shall call W. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison, the maximum sentence for the offense. At sentencing, another woman, K., testified that Jackson had raped her too. Although that alleged rape had occurred 18 months earlier, Jackson had been indicted for it only recently and had not yet been tried when he was sentenced for the rape of W. At the sentencing hearing Jackson took the stand and denied having raped K.…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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