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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Court Watch: Men Charged in Ashford House Beating Plead Not Guilty

Also, a Frankfort Township man gets 10 for trying to buy sex from minor, burglars get 4 and 6, and former restaurateur walks free after pleading guilty to arson.

The Southland's major criminal and civil cases heard in Cook County and Will County courts this week. ORLAND PARK — Rick Beuke, an attorney for Allan Kustok, said he has interviewed several experts but has “not formally retained anyone” who might be called to challenge the state’s forensic evidence at Anita “Jeanie” Kustok’s murder trial. Nearly two years have passed since Kustok carried his dead wife into the Palos Community Hospital ER and was arrested in her shooting death. Earlier this month, prosecutors announced that they were finished with their investigation. As of Monday they had only a new copy of a scratched DVD to give the defense, which they resolved to do by the next pretrial hearing on July 26. Of the two years worth of …

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Former Chinese Restaurant Owner Pleads Guilty to Arson (in Palos Patch), 'Ashford House 5' Plead Not Guilty to 185 Charges (in Tinley Park Patch), Frankfort Township Man Gets 10 Years for Trying to Buy Sex with Minors (in Frankfort Patch), and 11 more ›

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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Court Watch: Judge Refuses to Put 'Gag Order' On Possible Murder Trial Witnesses

Evidence comes in against man accused of soliciting sex from children through the Internet. Trial was set for one of two men, the search for whom caused a lockdown of Frankfort-area schools and neighborhoods last year.

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  • Saturday, April 28, 2012

The Southland's major criminal and civil cases heard in Cook County and Will County courts this week. NEW LENOX — A judge on Thursday denied Rodney Julun’s request to put a “gag order” on two men who could be called to testify against him during trial. Julun is accused of murdering Dwight Jones of New Lenox Township with a lamp and then enlisting David Reed and John White to rob his home and property over the next several days. Evidently unaware that court hearings are open to the public, Julun said he does not believe he can get a fair trial because Reed and White have been leaking “their stories” to the media. The two men remain in jail, awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to residential burglary, and have never spoken directly …

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Private Attorney Replaced with Public Defender in Granat Murder Trial, Man Pleads Not Guilty to Traveling to Tinley to Have Sex With Teen (in Tinley Park Patch), Religious Order Knew of Molestation Charges at Brother Rice: Court Records, and 11 more ›

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