KOKORALEIS v. GILMORE

No. 97-2605.

131 F.3d 692 (1997)

Andrew KOKORALEIS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Jerry GILMORE, Warden, Pontiac Correctional Center, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided December 16, 1997.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied January 12, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol R. Heise, Freedman & Bornstein, Chicago, IL, Alan M. Freedman (argued), Midwest Center for Justice, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for Petitioner-Appellant.

Steven R. Splitt (argued), Office of the Atty. General Criminal Appeals Div., Chicago, IL, for Respondent-Appellee.

Before BAUER, EASTERBROOK and DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied January 12, 1998.

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Andrew Kokoraleis has confessed to killing as many as 18 women. His confessions narrate a ghastly routine: kidnapping, rape, torture, stabbing victims to death with knives or ice picks, mutilating the corpses, and hiding the remains. Some victims had a breast amputated by piano wire. Kokoraleis and his confederates (his brother Thomas Kokoraleis, Robin Gecht...

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