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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Teen Charged With Murder in Palos Parents' Killings Can't Get Case Kicked

The lawyer for a teen charged with murder in connection with the brutal slaying of a friend's parents tried and failed to have the case dismissed.

The lawyer for the youngest of four pals charged with the brutal murder of a Palos couple failed to convince a judge to dismiss the case against his client. Joel Brodsky, the attorney for 18-year-old Mohammad Salahat, argued during a Thursday morning hearing at the Bridgeview courthouse that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juveniles cannot be sentenced to life in prison without parole. Salahat was 16—legally a juvenile—when he was charged as an adult with the September 2011 murders of John and Maria Granat. If convicted of the double murder, Salahat faces a sentence of life in prison, Brodsky said, and therefore the case against him must be dismissed. Assistant State's Attorney Donna Norton called Brodsky's argument "both irrational and …

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Prosecutors: Son and Three Friends Plotted to Murder Palos Township Couple For Money, Bail Denied, Palos Township (in Palos Patch), and Amos Alonzo Stagg High School (in Palos Patch)

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ayaah

12:08 am on Monday, April 22, 2013

Bridgeview residents go to stagg too   more ›

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Alleged Teen Getaway Driver in Brutal Palos Murder Gets New Lawyer

A new lawyer has joined the case of a former Oak Lawn Community High School student charged with helping to kill the mother and father of a friend.

The case against a Chicago Ridge teen charged with murder for allegedly driving the getaway car after the cowardly killing of a pal's sleeping parents was pushed back after a new lawyer jumped on board Tuesday. Chicago attorney Mohammad Ramadan entered his appearance but still has to get "up to speed" with the case against 18-year-old Mohammad Salahat, said Joel Brodsky, a lawyer already representing the teen. Salahat and three other young men—John Granat, 18, of Palos Township, Christopher Wyma, 18, of Bridgeview, and Ehab Qasem, 21, of Hickory Hills—all face murder charges for allegedly beating and stabbing Granat's parents to death in their bedroom. The four were arrested and have been held without bond at the Cook County Jail since …

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Joel Brodsky (in Joliet Patch), Village of Palos Park Kaptur Administrative Center (in Palos Patch), Lawyer: Alleged Driver Was Almost The Third Victim in the Granat Killings, and 8 more ›

tommy d.

4:58 pm on Saturday, March 16, 2013

a new lawyer,,,,typical guilty plee---you want to play with the big boys,you pay the big boy choice,,,''in this country-its called the law''-sorry,they picked,a'supposable,'in their dreams,a high profile lawyer,ha,ha,,,,,,,dudes a ambulance chaser----you drove the car,you spent the money,while,you knew,2-innocent people were murdered,,gee,I am not a lawyer,,,but,daddy,cannot get you out of this …   more ›

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