Legal Opinion
Hobbs v. Cappelluti
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided September 28, 2012No. Case No. 10 C 7649PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
JOAN HUMPHREY LEFKOW, District Judge.
On May 9, 2005, plaintiff Jerry Hobbs realized every parent’s worst nightmare when he discovered the bodies of his young daughter, Laura, and her friend, Krystal Tobias, in the park by their house. Laura had been sexually assaulted and both girls had been brutally murdered. Hobbs’s nightmare did not end there, however. Police quickly identified him as a suspect and, after interrogating him for 24 hours, coerced him into falsely confessing. This confession was then used to detain him on murder charges for over five years until he was…
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