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Danny EscobedoDanny Escobedo (b. ?1937?) Chicago felon of Mexican heritage who petitioned to the Supreme Court and brought about the case Escobedo v. Illinois. Escobedo's brother-in-law Manuel was shot on the night of January 19, 1960 and Escobedo was arrested the next day, in the morning, at 2:30 a.m, without a warrant to be questioned. He was released at 5 p.m, that afternoon, after Warren Wolfson, his lawyer obtained a writ of habeas corpus, making no statement to the police. On January 30, Benedict DiGerlando, a man in police custody told the police that Escobedo had fired and killed Manuel. The police then arrested Escobedo along with his sister between 8 and 9 that day. He was then taken to the police headquarters and questioned without letting him speak to or even see his lawyer . During his questioning, Escobedo was tricked into saying he knew that DiGerlando had killed Manuel, making him an accomplice. He was then found guilty of first degree murder and was sentenced to jail for 20 years, with his "confession" which he had later recanted. He then petitioned to the Illinois Supreme Court, where the conviction was affirmed and then to the Us Supreme Court. The US Supreme Court accepted to hear it and the case was titled Escobedo v. Illinois. The case was heard on April 29, 1964. Barry L. Kroll argued for Escobedo with Donald M. Haskell, and James R. Thompson argued for Illionis against Escobedo with Daniel P. Ward and Elmer C. Kissane. Bernard Weisberg argued for the American Civil Liberties Union in favor of Escobedo with Walter T. Fisher. The case was decided on June 22, 1964. Justice Arthur Goldberg delivered the opinion of the Court, which was in favor of Escobedo. The ruling reversed Escobedo's conviction and stated that "Under the circumstances of this case, where a police investigation is no longer a general inquiry into an unsolved crime but has begun to focus on a particular suspect in police custody who has been refused an opportunity to consult with his counsel and who has not been warned of his constitutional right to keep silent, the accused has been denied the assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments; and no statement extracted by the police during the interrogation may be used against him at a trial." Escobedo, after the case, wondered around, drifting from job to job and was arrested frequently. He was arrested in 2001, outside Mexico City, Mexico, for federal probation violations and on a warrant issued in Illinois in connection with a 1983 stabbing death. Escobedo had gotten a spot on the US Marshals Service list of 15 most-wanted fugitives, before been captured. Escobedo is a registered sex offender with a criminal record dating back before his Supreme Court case and has been arrested 25 times on charges ranging from murder to narcotics.
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