When an alleged shooter changes his mind on a guilty plea, as did Robert Crimo III Wednesday, families suffer more.
Maria Uvaldo, wife of Highland Park shooting victim Edward Uvaldo, wipes away a tear outside the Lake County Courthouse following the hearing on June 26, 2024, in Waukegan. Robert Crimo III rejected a negotiated plea that would have resulted in a sentence of natural life in prison.
We’re sure the good people of Highland Park understand and appreciate the good reasons for all of that, but our hearts still went out Wednesday to the family members who lost loved ones on that awful day. They had come to court expecting to make victims’ statements prior to Crimo being sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after pleading guilty to seven counts of murder and 48 counts of aggravated battery.
We’re just a week away from July Fourth, now a traumatic day for those families, probably forever. To say they were expecting closure likely is to overstate, but they surely hoped that watching Crimo be put away for life would represent some sort of helpful marker in their collective ongoing experience of pain.Crimo changed his mind and went back to jail.
And so the bereaved are faced with a wait of another eight months to see justice. No wonder they said they felt manipulated by this man all over again.Click to print In Florida, driver’s license suspensions keep people in a spiral of debt, recidivismMcDonald’s $5 Meal Deal is now on sale. Here’s what you get.
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