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U.S. EX REL. CROSS v. DeROBERTIS

No. 82 C 4072.

661 F.Supp. 683 (1986)

UNITED STATES of America, ex rel. Mylon CROSS, Petitioner, v. Richard DeROBERTIS, et al., Respondents.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

October 9, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick F. Cohn, Julius Echeles, Chicago, Ill., for petitioner.

Michael Weinstein, David E. Bindi, Asst. Attys. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for respondent.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ANN C. WILLIAMS, District Judge.

This case teaches the lesson that sloppy lawyering can undermine individual rights and drain judicial resources. Here, the inferior counselling of a defendant in a criminal case means that the efforts of many participants in the judicial process have been wasted and may mean that an individual has been unjustly incarcerated for eight years.

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