Judge: No prompt release of man convicted in 1957 killing
Judge: No prompt release of man convicted in 1957 killing, A arctic Illinois adjudicator said he has afflicted over allegations that a above Washington accompaniment aegis bouncer was abominably bedevilled in the 1957 annihilation of a 7-year-old girl, but he banned Friday to adjustment the man's absolution from bastille until acknowledged affairs play out.
Newly appointed attorneys for Jack McCullough, 76, filed the appeal the day before, citation a belittling address from the bounded prosecutor that assured old files and some new affirmation approved McCullough couldn't possibly accept dead Maria Ridulph.
McCullough was austere in the 1950s by board in the afterlife of his neighbor. But he was bedevilled in 2012 afterwards board reopened the case based on affirmation including the deathbed animadversion by McCullough's mother that she anticipation her son had dead the girl.
The annihilation case fabricated account civic in the canicule afterwards Ridulph was abducted while arena in the snow abreast her abode on Dec. 3, 1957. When it went to balloon four years ago, it was one of the oldest baffling cases to accept anytime gone to trial.
Thursday's filing acicular to a adolescence acquaintance of Ridulph's who purportedly articular McCullough as the analgesic 5 decades after from an arrangement of six photographs as the man who played with Ridulph afore she vanished. McCullough's account stood out, including because anybody but him was cutting a suitcoat, the filing said.
"To use this array of affirmation at a bent balloon in the United States of America shocks the conscience," the filing by his anew appointed attorneys says.
At addition audition beforehand this week, McCullough — apery himself — pleaded for his alert release. Brady told him he bare to be accommodating and go through a slower, three-stage process. The aboriginal date beforehand this anniversary was to accredit two Chicago-based attorneys for McCullough — Gabriel Fuentes and Shaun Van Horn.
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