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Holiday Hills shooting Cohn found remembered 1 year later not guilty
Attorney: Physical evidence, witness reliability lacking By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com
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Sue Maness, widow of McHenry County Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Maness, wipes away tears at her McHenry home Wednesday while she talks about how her life has changed since a high-profile police ambush in Holiday Hills and the passing of her husband.
Officer involved, Maness’ widow reflect on how their lives changed By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com It started with a phone call in the middle of the night Oct. 16, 2014. Then a gunshot, followed by at least a dozen more. Then a 16-hour manhunt. Then an arrest. Then a trial, followed by a sentencing. And recently, an unexpected funeral. For the survivors of the Holiday Hills ambush one year ago Friday,
it’s hard to believe, given everything that’s happened, given all the ups and downs, that it has been only a year. “It feels like forever, but at the same time it feels like it was just yesterday,” said Sue Maness, Dwight widow of McHenry Maness County Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Maness. It’s been one year since Scott B. Peters, 53, fired more that a doz-
en rounds through his front door at sheriff’s deputies who were responding to his house for a domestic battery call. Since then, a jury convicted Peters of attempted murder of deputies Dwight Maness, Khalia SatKhalia kiewicz and Eric Satkiewicz Luna. A McHenry County judge sentenced Peters to 135 years in prison. At 8 a.m. Monday, Satkiewicz
will report for active duty at the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office – her first day back since the shooting. She had four surgeries to repair a gaping hole that a bullet from Peters’ gun left in her leg. She’s admittedly nervous about returning, but excited to get back. “It’s just a mix of emotions,” Satkiewicz said. “I’m happy to go back, and at the time I’m sad that I won’t see Dwight back at work.” Maness was recovering from
See HOLIDAY HILLS, page A5
WOODSTOCK – A former homeless Woodstock man was acquitted Thursday of a felony charge that he doused a woman with lighter fluid and set her on fire. Jurors deliberated for about four hours before returning a not guilty verdict for 34-year-old Anthony D. Cohn. Cohn has been in custody since his arrest in May 2014. He was released Thursday after his acquittal. He was facing up to Anthony 45 years in pris- D. Cohn on if convicted. At the trial this week before McHenry County Judge Sharon Prather, Cohn’s accuser testified that he had asked her for sex, and said when she refused his advances, he doused her in lighter fluid and ignited it. Cohn, the woman and two others were living in an area known as “tent city” in a wooded area behind Jewel-Osco in Woodstock on May, 29, 2014, when the crime was alleged to have occurred. The four were homeless at the time. The woman wailed as she was led from the courtroom after the verdict was read. Outside the courtroom, she said, “I want to know why he didn’t get time for burning my back.”
See COHN, page A4
Hastert’s attorney: Former speaker intends to plead guilty completed by Monday, attorney John Neither Gallo nor prosecutors ofGallo told a federal judge during a brief fered details about any status hearing. At the attorney’s repossible deal, including CHICAGO – Former House Speaker quest, the judge set Oct. 28 as the date which counts Hastert Dennis Hastert intends to plead guilty for the 73-year-old Illinois Republican would plead guilty to or in a hush-money case linked to allega- to change his plea. whether the man who tions of sexual misconduct, a defense Defendants typically agree to plead was once second in the attorney said Thursday, a move that guilty in hopes of a more lenient senline of succession for could ensure that any secrets from his tence. A plea deal would also avert a Dennis the presidency would days as a high school wrestling coach trial that could divulge more about the Hastert go to prison. are never revealed in public. alleged misconduct behind the crimiHastert did not atA written plea agreement should be nal charges. tend Thursday’s hearing.
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He faces one count of breaking banking laws and one count of lying to the FBI about agreeing to pay $3.5 million to someone referred to in the indictment only as “Individual A.” The money was supposedly to hide claims of unspecified past misconduct. A plea deal would mean that Individual A, who has never been identified, would not have to testify about receiving any of the money. The Associated Press and other media, citing
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anonymous sources, have reported that the payments were meant to conceal claims of sexual misconduct. In all, Hastert withdrew $1.7 million from 2010 to 2014, according to the indictment. Prosecutors are probably seeking a prison sentence. It would be unusual for them to entertain the possibility of probation on such serious charges.
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