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| 1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | WHEREAS, On Tuesday, October 24, 2006, Dr. David Cornbleet | ||||||
| 3 | was tortured and brutally murdered in his office located at 30 | ||||||
| 4 | N. Michigan Ave. in Chicago; and
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| 5 | WHEREAS, A former patient of Dr. Cornbleet's, Hans | ||||||
| 6 | Peterson, has confessed to committing this murder; and
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| 7 | WHEREAS, After committing this horrendous crime, Peterson | ||||||
| 8 | fled to and hid in the French portion of St. Martin; and | ||||||
| 9 | WHEREAS, Before confessing and turning himself into French | ||||||
| 10 | officials, Peterson applied for and was granted French | ||||||
| 11 | citizenship merely based on his mother's nationality; and
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| 12 | WHEREAS, Even though he was born and raised in the United | ||||||
| 13 | States and filled out his French citizenship application after | ||||||
| 14 | committing the act of murder, France granted him citizenship in | ||||||
| 15 | May of 2007 based on the fact that there is French blood in his | ||||||
| 16 | lineage; and
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| 17 | WHEREAS, France claims that Peterson is protected as a | ||||||
| 18 | French citizen by its laws and has refused extradition; and
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| 19 | WHEREAS, If Peterson is ever tried and convicted, under | ||||||
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| 1 | French law at most he will face 20 years in prison, what the | ||||||
| 2 | French consider being a life sentence; and | ||||||
| 3 | WHEREAS, The 2002 Treaty between the United States and the | ||||||
| 4 | French Republic merely states that "there is no obligation upon | ||||||
| 5 | the Requested State to grant the extradition of a person who is | ||||||
| 6 | a national of the Requested State" and does not absolutely | ||||||
| 7 | preclude such extradition; therefore, be it
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| 8 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | ||||||
| 9 | NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
| 10 | urge the French Republic to extradite Hans Peterson, an | ||||||
| 11 | American citizen who committed a crime on American soil; and be | ||||||
| 12 | it further
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| 13 | RESOLVED, That the French Republic's treatment of this case | ||||||
| 14 | to date offends the notions of justice of this body and of the | ||||||
| 15 | people of the State of Illinois; and be it further
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| 16 | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | ||||||
| 17 | presented to the French Republic's Consul General to Chicago as | ||||||
| 18 | an appeal by the people of the State of Illinois for France to | ||||||
| 19 | exercise its ability to extradite under the 2002 Treaty with | ||||||
| 20 | the United States in the interest of true justice.
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