HOBBS v. CAPPELLUTI

Case No. 10 C 7649.

899 F.Supp.2d 738 (2012)

Jerry HOBBS, Plaintiff, v. Domenic CAPPELLUTI, Charles Schletz, and William Valko, of the Waukegan Police Department; City of Waukegan; Andrew Jones, of the Vernon Hills Police Department; Village of Vernon Hills; Kevin Harris of the Zion Police Department; City of Zion; Lake County State's Attorney Michael Waller; Assistant Lake County State's Attorney Jeff Pavletic; Assistant Lake County State's Attorney Michael Mermel; County of Lake and Unknown Police Officer, Defendants.

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

September 28, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kathleen T. Zellner , Douglas Henry Johnson , Kathleen T. Zellner & Associates, P.C., Downers Grove, IL, Anne Zellner Nolte , Kathleen T. Zellner & Associates, P.C., Oak Brook, IL, for Plaintiff.

Thomas George Dicianni , Ellen Kornichuk Emery , Pedro Fregoso, Jr. , Ancel, Glink, Diamond, Bush, Dicianni & Krafthefer, P.C., Chicago, IL, Michael E. Kujawa , William Charles Barasha , Judge, James & Kujawa, Ltd., Park Ridge, IL, William W. Kurnik , Amanda Marie Hillmann , Knight, Hoppe, Kurnik & Knight LLC, Rosemont, IL, Clifford Gary Kosoff , Julie Ann Hofherr Bruch , O'Halloran, Kosoff, Helander & Geitner, P.C., Benjamin Matthew Jacobi , Bhairav Radia , O'Halloran Kosoff Geitner & Cook, LLC, Northbrook, IL, for Defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

JOAN HUMPHREY LEFKOW, District Judge.

On May 9, 2005, plaintiff Jerry Hobbs realized every parent's worst nightmare when he discovered the bodies of his young daughter, Laura, and her friend, Krystal Tobias, in the park by their house. Laura had been sexually assaulted and both girls had been brutally murdered. Hobbs's nightmare did not end there, however. Police quickly identified him as a suspect and, after interrogating him for...

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