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Convicted Murderer Wants Local Attorney
Attorney Jeremy Karlin may not be done yet representing accused spree killer Nicholas Sheley.

The Sterling "Daily Gazette" reports Sheley is asking to have Karlin represent him in his Whiteside County case -- where he's charged with the murders of five people aged 2 to 93.

That means, yet again, Sheley doesn't want to represent himself. Sheley originally wanted to represent himself in his Knox County case, dropped that, and brought Karlin back on after the Death Penalty in Illinois was repealed.

Sheley was convicted last month of the death of 65-year old Ronald Randall.

The Gazette reports the motion to use Karlin in the Whiteside County case was filed Wednesday, and will likely be taken up by 14th District Chief Judge Jeffrey O'Connor during a hearing scheduled for October 21.

Sheley also allegedly killed an Arkansas couple in Missouri as part of a two-state killing spree in 2008.


(Nicholas Sheley. File Photo.)
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