It was a three-day week at the Will County Courthouse, so there wasn't a lot going on.
It was nice while it lasted, because that's all going to change next week, starting with Monday's sentencing hearing for quadruple-killer Christopher Vaughn.
Vaughn was convicted in September of murdering his wife, 34-year-old Kimberly Vaughn, and three children—Blake, 8, Cassandra, 11, and Abigayle, 12—in June 2007.
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Vaughn is going to get life in prison.
But that's next week. In the week that just ended, we saw Coal City woman Tiffany Unland, 30, . Unland already .
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Unland allegedly killed a Palatine man in a drunken crash on Route 6 in Channahon in August.
Also in court last week:
- A former guest of the county jail is suing Sheriff Paul Kaupas, Will County, and a company that provides medical staff to correctional institutions for employing a nurse who allegedly blabbed about his having HIV.
- The attorneys for a Frankfort lawyer charged with trying to put a hit on his estranged wife are waiting on the secret recordings reportedly made by a police snitch.
- The father of a 24-year-old woman who was treated for chest pain at Provena St. Joseph Medical Center and died four days later at a Wilmington nursing home filed a wrongful death lawsuit.
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