GIST: "Saying he was ready to hear arguments on a forensic testing motion, Judge Michael Jansz delayed the procedure on Wednesday after attorney Andrew Hale delivered a second motion to the courts the prior afternoon to remove Will County State’s Attorney James W. Glasgow’s office as special prosecution.
The case involves 84-year-old Chester Weger, who was found guilty of one of three women’s fatal head beatings in LaSalle Canyon at Starved Rock State Park in 1960. After recanting his confessions two days later and eight months after the murders, he maintains his innocence, even during his nearly six decades in prison.
In the LaSalle County courtroom, Judge Jansz said he can’t do anything on the previous motions until the motion to remove the special prosecution is resolved. Hale said Jansz would have to poll area counties to see if another state attorney would be willing to take the case.
A June 20th 2:00 p.m. hearing will be Weger’s next court date.
Elsewhere, Hale met with the media after the 15-minute hearing.
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WSPY News inquired about the mitochondrial DNA testing results at a Virginia-based lab that could exclude Weger as the killer.
But earlier, Hale told WSPY News exclusively that the DNA results of hairs found in the clutches of two victims may be too degraded after 63 years locked up in a LaSalle County courthouse file cabinet.
Hale was attempting more proof that Weger didn’t commit the crime after an Elgin-based lab proved one hair was not from him but from a different male.
WSPY News sought permission to ask Weger if he knew who committed the triple murder, but lawyer Hale refused.
Finally, asked if the last seven of 55 Tik Tok videos would still play, where he explains why Weger’s conviction should be vacated, Hale’s eyes widened and a smile grew.
Does that mean he has new and surprising evidence?
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FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
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YET ANOTHER FINAL WORD:
David Hammond, one of Broadwater’s attorneys who sought his exoneration, told the Syracuse Post-Standard, “Sprinkle some junk science onto a faulty identification, and it’s the perfect recipe for a wrongful conviction.”
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