Chief Justice FREEMAN delivered the opinion of the court:
The issue presented in this appeal is whether defensive collateral estoppel may be utilized by the defendant in this civil case to bar litigation of an issue which was decided adversely to the plaintiff in the plaintiff's prior criminal proceeding.
FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
In 1986 Ernie Talarico was a second-year medical student at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. Talarico...
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