Legal Opinion
MacK v. McCann
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 18, 2008No. 06-3257PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
On the day after Thanksgiving in 1979, Larry Mack murdered Joseph Kolar, a bank security guard, in the course of robbing a Chicago bank. Initially sentenced to death for this senseless killing, Mack has waged a sometimes successful twenty-nine-year legal battle to lessen the severity of his punishment. The Illinois courts vacated the death sentence and eventually sentenced Mack to natural life in prison. At the time of his original trial, in an effort to avoid the death penalty, Mack offered to plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of natural life, an offer that was…
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