Legal Opinion
Steidl v. Fermon
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 18, 2007No. 06-2017PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Gordon “Randy” Steidl spent more than seventeen years in jail for a double homicide that he insists he did not commit. What makes this even worse is the fact (according to Steidl) that from the outset Illinois state police officers knowingly possessed and concealed evidence of his innocence, and they never disclosed this evidence to him, throughout his trial, his appeals, and most of his post-conviction proceedings. Steidl was finally released in 2004 after a federal district court, concluding that “acquittal was reasonably probable if the jury had heard all of the…
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