Juan Rivera (wrongful conviction)
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juan-rivera-wrongful-conviction-207-8320492
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Juan Rivera (wrongful conviction)
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Juan A. Rivera Jr. is an American man who was wrongfully convicted three times for the 1992 rape and murder of 11-year-old Holly Staker in Waukegan, Illinois. He was convicted twice on the basis of a confession that he said was coerced. No physical evidence linked him to the crime scene. In 2015 he received a $20 million settlement from Lake County, Illinois for wrongful conviction, formerly the largest settlement of its kind in United States history. DNA testing done in 2004 on semen taken from
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American man wrongfully convicted three times
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Rivera_(wrongful_conviction)
date created:
2015-05-06T13:15:12Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T01:29:47Z
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