Legal Opinion
Elton Houston and Robert Brown v. Cecil A. Partee, Cook County State's Attorney, Thomas Dwyer and Larry Wharrie
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 27, 1992No. 91-1624PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
In 1984, Elton Houston and Robert Brown were convicted of murdering Ronnie Bell and sentenced to thirty-five years in prison. In May 1985, while Houston’s and Brown’s appeals were pending, Anthony Sumner, a member of the notorious El Rukn gang, told law enforcement officials that Houston and Brown had not murdered Bell. Sumner identified the murderers as El Rukns J.L. Houston (Elton Houston’s brother), Earl Hawkins and Derrick Kees. In February 1989, J.L. Houston, Hawkins and Kees confessed to murdering Bell. None of this information was disclosed to Houston or Brown…
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