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The Cruz Factor
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Sep 30, 2002 09:53am |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Sun-Times |
| News Date | Monday, September 30, 2002 03:53:46 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | As DuPage County state's attorney, Jim Ryan oversaw the first two prosecutions of Rolando Cruz for the rape and murder of Jeanine Nicarico. One of his deputies, Joe Birkett, worked on those cases and the final trial in 1995, in which Cruz was found not guilty. Ryan and Birkett are the GOP nominees for governor and attorney general. Their Democratic opponents, Rod Blagojevich and Lisa Madigan, say both men helped put an innocent man on Death Row.
THE ATTACK
Blagojevich and other Jim Ryan opponents over the years have charged that Ryan tried to put an innocent man to death--twice.
Six years after Rolando Cruz has been found not guilty, Jim Ryan will not apologize, will not say he believes Cruz to be innocent and will not sign a petition asking the governor to pardon Cruz.
Joe Birkett will not admit his office was wrong to prosecute Cruz three times despite mounting evidence of his innocence. He will not even say he believes Rolando Cruz is innocent. |
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