Full Text of HR0721 095th General Assembly
HR0721 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 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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| WHEREAS, A former patient of Dr. Cornbleet's, Hans | 6 |
| Peterson, has confessed to committing this murder; and
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| 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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| 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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| WHEREAS, France claims that Peterson is protected as a | 18 |
| French citizen by its laws and has refused extradition; and
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| WHEREAS, If Peterson is ever tried and convicted, under |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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