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RIVERA v. MUELLER

No. 08 C 6185.

596 F.Supp.2d 1163 (2009)

Juan A. RIVERA, Plaintiff, v. Robert S. MUELLER, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

February 2, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas P. Sullivan, Andrew William Vail, Jenner & Block LLP, Jeffrey Urdangen, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern School of Law, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff.

Elisabeth Layton, U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Programs Branch, Washington, DC, for Defendant.

ORDER

REBECCA R. PALLMEYER, District Judge.

Plaintiff Juan Rivera has been tried twice and convicted of the murder of eleven-year-old Holly Staker, who was raped and murdered in Waukegan in 1992. Mr. Rivera, who has been sentenced to natural life, has consistently maintained his innocence of this crime. In 2005, Mr. Rivera's attorneys presented DNA evidence showing that the semen recovered from the victim's vagina had not been deposited by Mr. Rivera...

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