Articles filed under Burlington Township
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Jury acquits son accused of killing father in Burlington TownshipJul 26, 2017 7:35 pm - A Kane County jury took less than three hours Tuesday to acquit a man of the most serious charges filed after the death of his father in February 2016. Daniel R. Rak wa...
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Attorney: Investigators rushed to judgment in Burlington man's deathJul 25, 2017 5:20 pm - Defense attorneys for a man accused of murdering his father last year in his Burlington Township home argued Monday that investigators made quick and erroneous assumptio...
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Police investigating message on pizza box sent to jurors in murder trialJul 22, 2017 6:50 pm - A message in a pizza box threw the Daniel Rak murder trial for a loop Friday. Fifteen jurors were questioned, individually, about whether seeing the phrase “They're inno...
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Burlington Township murder suspect admits to throwing bottle at, punching dadJul 21, 2017 4:39 pm - Angry that his father walked in on his girlfriend taking a bath, Daniel Rak went to his dad's bedroom to deliver a bottle of vodka and to tell him to show respect. "Here...
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Burlington murder trial focuses on cluttered home; experts coming nextJul 20, 2017 5:41 pm - The trial of Daniel Rak, accused of killing his father in his Burlington Township home in February 2016, focused Wednesday on the dirty, cluttered conditions in the home...
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Attorney: Light 'bop' from son didn't kill Burlington Township manJul 19, 2017 8:21 am - An earlier version misspelled the name of witness Brittani Decker. Was Jeffrey Rak punched in the face, or merely "bopped?" And was the brain injury found at his au...
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Charges stand in Burlington Township murder caseMay 13, 2017 11:40 pm - Daniel Rak will go on trial on charges he murdered his father despite his lawyers' emails about the case being sent to the Kane County state's attorney's office. Judge D...
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Judge to decide if email breach negates murder chargeMay 04, 2017 6:22 pm - A Kane County judge is mulling whether an email breach of defense team emails will result in the dismissal of murder charges against a man accused of killing his father ...
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Burlington murder trial delayed two weeks while email fight continuesApr 12, 2017 5:42 am - The trial of a Burlington Township man accused of beating his father to death has been delayed while he fights to have the charges dismissed because privileged defense t...
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State: Emails for Burlington murder case defense never read, sharedApr 11, 2017 3:25 pm - A Kane County assistant state's attorney testified Monday that she immediately put emails from the public defender's office into a separate "delete" folder after she rea...