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...crime have been invented, the basic premise of the situation—a confessed and condemned murder suddenly begins pleading innocence, and another convict claims to have committed the crime—loosely parallels the case of former Illinois death row inmates Rolando Cruz and his co-defendant Alex Hernandez, whom Turow represented in appeal in 1991. A fabricated confession, as well as significant oversight and mishandling of the case by detectives, led to their false convictions in 1983. After a third trial, Hernandez’s sentence was reduced to 80 years in prison. Cruz, however, remained on death...
While their initial trial represents a picture of the legal system at its worst and most dangerous, Hernandez and Cruz were only two of the thirteen Illinois death row inmates who were later exonerated; the reversals of these convictions—and 11 others—prompted Ryan to impose a moratorium on capital punishment in Jan. 2000, to the joy of anti-death penalty activists everywhere...
...Berta Hernandez, who has rented an apartment on Western Ave. for two decades, says housing prospects are bleak in light of Harvard’s expansion...
Both he and Hernandez, the president of RAZA, say they are especially careful of their group’s policies because they may be taken as representative views of an entire racial group...
...It’s inevitable that people think we are representing the Latino community. Whether you like it or not, that’s your job,” Hernandez says...