Legal Opinion
Benard McKinley v. Kim Butler
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 4, 2016No. 14-1944PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
In 2001, a 16-year-old named Benard McKinley shot and killed a 23-year-old man, Abdo Serna-Ibarra, as he tried to enter a Chicago park. Both were with friends, and one of McKinley’s friends, a 15-year-old named Edward Chavera, may have handed McKinley the gun. Whether or not he did, he told McKinley to shoot Serna-Ibarra. McKinley obeyed, shooting him in the back, and when Serna-Ibarra turned around with his hands raised McKinley shot him again, killing him. Tried in an Illinois state court and convicted by a jury of first-degree murder, McKinley was sentenced to…
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