We started the week off by talking with the New Lenox man jailed for two weeks for a murder allegedly committed by someone else with the same name.
Pedro Hernandez, 67, said his time in the Will County jail was "horrific," and that he's looking for a lawyer to talk to about filing a lawsuit.
But Hernandez's ordeal was just one of the things going on last week. There was also:
- The lawyer for former Plainfield North gym teacher Ashley Blumenshine saying he expects her to plead guilty to having sex with a 16-year-old student when she makes her next court appearance.
- A Joliet Junior College student and two school employees claiming in a lawsuit against a vending machine company that they found cockroaches in their coffee.
- The lawyer for a teen charged with the brutal murder of a Palos husband and wife failing to get the young man's case dismissed.
- A plea deal that didn't seem to please anyone in the case of slain NIU student Toni Keller.
- An "emergency" at the Chicago criminal courts building that forced a postponement in a murder case at the Markham courthouse.
- The attorney for a Matteson man charged with a Joliet murder cautioning his client that the "woods are full of snitches."