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This undated file photo provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows former Bolingbrook, Ill., police officer Drew Peterson. On Tuesday, July 7, 2015, Peterson is due back in court in Chester, Ill., as his trial on charges of plotting to kill a prosecutor approaches. Peterson has pleaded not guilty to charges of soliciting an unidentified prison inmate to kill Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow. (Illinois Department of Corrections via AP, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows James Watts, f Cairo, Ill. On Friday, May 16, 2014, Watts, 29, a former convict who authorities say is a suspect in a deadly southern Illinois bank robbery in Cairo, was charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The region's U.S. Attorney's Office says Watts was arrested Thursday on a railroad trestle in Cairo hours after a First National Bank branch was robbed. Authorities say two bank employees were killed and a third employee was critically injured. (AP Photo/Illinois Department of Corrections)
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This undated photo provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows Nicholas Sheley. Jury selection began Monday, May 12, 2014, in Rock Island, Ill., for Sheley who is charged in four killings in 2008 in Rock Falls, Ill., that police say were part of a two-state killing spree. Sheley, who is 34, has pleaded not guilty. He is already serving two life terms after being convicted of killing one man in Sterling and another in Galesburg. He is also is charged in the deaths of an Arkansas couple who were killed in Festus, Mo. (AP Photo/Illinois Department of Corrections)
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This undated photo provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows 29-year-old Jerome Harris. On Tuesday, April 29, 2014, a jury in Danville, Ill., convicted Harris of first-degree murder for three drug-related killings in Danville in March 2007. He faces a mandatory life sentence. He is already serving 25 years in state prison for drug-related crimes. (AP Photo/Illinois Department of Corrections)
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This undated photo provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows Richard E. Wanke Jr. Murder charges were announced in Rockford, Ill., Wednesday, April 16, 2014 against Wanke, the one-time client of a Rockford attorney who was fatally shot while clearing snow from his driveway in 2008. Wanke was arrested Wednesday at Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, where he has been serving a 14-year sentence on burglary charges with a projected parole date of May 7. (AP Photo/Illinois Department of Corrections)
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FILE - This 2013 file photo provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows imprisoned former Bolingbrook, Ill., police officer Drew Peterson. Peterson's lawyer argues in an appeal mailed Monday, Jan. 13, 2014, that a judge and a defense attorney made critical errors during the trial that ended with the former Chicago-area policeman convicted of killing Savio, denying him a fair trial. (AP Photo/Illinois Department of Corrections, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Illinois Department of Corrections shows inmate Deon Patrick, 42, of Chicago. On Friday, Jan. 10, 2014, Cook County prosecutors dropped murder charges against Patrick who spent 21 years locked up for a double murder he says he didn't commit. Patrick's attorney says his client is expected to be released from Menard Correctional Center later in the day. (AP Photo/Illinois Department of Corrections)
