Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit February 19, 2003, 19-1204 (Harry Aleman v. Jerry L. Sternes, Warden, Dixon Correctional Center)

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

Charged with murder, Harry Aleman bribed Judge Frank Wilson (of the Circuit Court of Cook County) to secure an acquittal. Wilson committed suicide in 1990 on learning that news of this and other corruption had reached federal investigators. Already in prison on unrelated federal convictions, see

United States v. DiDomenico,

78 F.3d 294 (7th Cir.1996);

Aleman v.