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UNITED STATES v. RAGEN

No. 57C2027.

172 F.Supp. 734 (1959)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Emil RECK, Relator, v. Joseph E. RAGEN, Respondent.

United States District Court N. D. Illinois, E. D.

April 28, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Latham Castle, Atty. Gen., State of Illinois, for respondent.

A. Bradley Eben, Chicago, Ill., for relator.

CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.

The Relator, Emil Reck, was convicted of murder in the Criminal Court of Cook County, Illinois, after trial by jury in 1936, and sentenced to the Illinois State Penitentiary for a term of 199 years. At his trial, two confessions to the crime by Reck were received in evidence. At a preliminary hearing by the Court the confessions were found to be voluntary and admissible. On the trial they were again specially found to be voluntary by the jury...

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