Can Illinois or SCOTUS Be Sued For Wrongful Death?
UTHOR: Just Some Poor Scmuck DATE: 5/04/2003 11:46:00 PM —– BODY: Subject of landmark Supreme Court ruling guilty of murder May 1, 2003 — The plaintiff in a landmark 1964 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on a suspect’s right to a lawyer has been convicted in a 20-year-old murder case. A Cook County jury on Wednesday deliberated for about an hour before finding Daniel Escobedo guilty of killing shopkeeper Ki Hwan Kim with an ice pick in 1983. The 65-year-old Escobedo now faces a possible sentence of natural life in prison. Escobedo was arrested in connection with Kim’s murder in Mexico after his nephew told authorities about the crime. During the three-day trial, Mitsuru Morales testified about how Escobedo recruited him to help rob and murder Kim, a fur and leather dealer. Morales, who was only 16 at the time, has since pleaded guilty to armed robbery. Escobedo was the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Escobedo v. Illinois, in which the high court threw out Escobedo’s convi
