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Peters’ wife in dispute with jail Says contact order violated by officials By CHELSEA McDOUGALL cmcdougall@shawmedia.com
wave outside her home. She’s one of many McHenry County residents celebrating the court’s historic ruling.
WOODSTOCK – A day after sentencing Scott B. Peters to what amounts to life in prison, a McHenry County judge apologized to Peters’ wife because the jail shipped him out despite the judge granting the couple a contact visit. Peters’ wife, Lisa, appeared before McHenry County Judge Sharon Prather on Friday to ask why her husband was shipped out early Friday morning before the scheduled contact visit. The court order granting a visit to Lisa Peters and the couple’s daughter was signed by Prather on Thursday after she sentenced Scott Peters to 135 years in Scott B. prison for shooting Peters at three, and injuring two, McHenry County sheriff’s deputies. Lisa Peters said immediately after the sentencing, she went to the jail to schedule the visit. She said she waited another 15 minutes for the order to make its way from the courtroom to jail, and eventually scheduled her visit for 9 a.m. Friday morning. When Lisa Peters arrived at the jail Friday she was told Scott Peters already had left for Stateville Correctional Facility in Joliet. “That’s her story,” said David Devane, chief administrative officer for the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office, who also heads the McHenry County Jail. Devane said the jail never received a copy of the judge’s order. Lisa Peters brought her copy with her Friday, and it also appears in Scott Peters’ court file. Scott Peters left the McHenry County Jail at 5:45 a.m. Friday and was the only person on the bus to Joliet, Devane said. “You told us this was fair and impartial,” Lisa Peters said to the judge, referring to Prather’s earlier comments regarding Scott Peters’ allegations his jury trial was “rigged.” Prather said she can’t control jail operations, but said “it was very inconsiderate for them to have done that.” “I apologize for that, ma’am. … It should not have happened.” Those sentenced to serve prison time are first sent to Stateville for processing before being assigned a
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Dick Beck (left) of Marengo celebrates with his partner of 53 years, Ed Buzinski, after Friday’s 5-4 ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that gives gay couples the right to marry in all 50 states. The couple plans on finally getting married. “We waited a long time for this,” Buzinski said. The celebration of the ruling was held Friday at Tree of Life Unitarian Church in McHenry.
Vote gives same-sex couples nationwide the right to wed By MARK SHERMAN The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Samesex couples won the right to marry nationwide Friday as a divided Supreme Court handed a crowning victory to the gay rights movement, setting off a jubilant cascade of long-delayed weddings in states where they had been forbidden. “No longer may this liberty be denied,” said Justice Anthony Kennedy. The vote was narrow – 5-4 – but Kennedy’s majority opinion was clear and firm: “The court now holds that same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry.” The ruling will put an end to same-sex marriage bans in the 14 states that still maintain them, and provide an exclamation point for breathtaking changes in the nation’s social norms in recent years. As recently as last October,
On the Web To view a photo gallery of the national reaction to the Supreme Court’s ruling on samesex marriage, visit NWHerald. com. just over one-third of the states permitted gay marriages. Kennedy’s reading of the ruling elicited tears in the courtroom, euphoria outside and the immediate issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples in at least eight states. In Dallas, Kenneth Denson said he and Gabriel Mendez had been legally married in 2013 in California but “we’re Texans; we want to get married in Texas.” In praise of the decision, President Barack Obama called it “justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.”
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Deb Glaubke (left) of Woodstock holds the hand of her wife, Gale Harris, during a celebration Friday at Tree of Life Unitarian Church in McHenry. Glaubke and Harris have been together for 26 years and were the first same-sex couple to be married in McHenry County.
County residents react to ruling By KATIE DAHLSTROM kdahlstrom@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – Deb Glaubke plans to raise a flag symbolizing her love that she once thought
would stir controversy. With Friday’s 5-4 ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that gay couples have the right to marry in all 50 states, Glaubke said her rainbow flag will soon
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