Chester Weger was paroled from prison in 2020 after confessing to killing Lillian Oetting, one of three women found murdered in 1960 in a canyon at Starved Rock State Park.
He later recanted that confession and is now trying to get his conviction vacated.
Weger is scheduled to appear at a status hearing in about a month.
About a month ago, WLPO reported that prosecutors fighting Weger's effort to now claim innocence had been working on a motion to dismiss.
Weger's legal team has speculated that a hair found on another victim's glove belonged to another person.
Attorney Andy Hale says the hair belongs to one of three brothers, each of whom was at least 60 at the time of the murders.
According to the News Tribune, the three brothers were Leo Bray, Charles Bray, and Edward Bray.
Attorney Hale has said that the discovery of the other person's hair is powerful evidence of Weger's innocence.
Hale has thus far avoided addressing a key question: How is another man's hair on another woman's glove proof that Weger didn't kill the woman he admitted to murdering?
The next hearing in the case will be on April 10th.
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PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/
SEE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG, AT THE LINK BELOW: HL:
https://www.blogger.com/blog/
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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.
https://deadline.com/2021/11/alice-sebold-lucky-rape-conviction-overturned-anthony-broadwater-12348801
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MORE VALUABLE WORDS: "As a former public defender, Texas' refusal to delay Ivan Cantu's execution to evaluate new evidence is deeply worrying for the state of our legal system. There should be no room for doubt in a death penalty case. The facts surrounding Cantu's execution should haunt all of us."
