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Former Pro Bono Client Juan Rivera Opens Barber College With Former Prison Guard

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The firm represented Juan Rivera in the third retrial of charges for the 1992 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. That trial resulted in conviction, and the firm assisted Stanford Law School Professor...

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The firm represented Juan Rivera in the third retrial of charges for the 1992 rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl. That trial resulted in conviction, and the firm assisted Stanford Law School Professor Lawrence Marshall, former director of Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law's Bluhm Legal Clinic Center on Wrongful Convictions, who briefed and argued Mr. Rivera's appeal from that conviction.

In 2011, a unanimous three-judge panel of the Illinois Appellate Court for the Second District reversed Mr. Rivera's conviction, finding insufficient evidence to support his conviction in light of the DNA evidence excluding him as the perpetrator. Years later,  in 2014, authorities announced that DNA evidence from the case matched a potential suspect in a separate murder.

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