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Juan A. Rivera Jr. (born October 31, 1972) is an American man who was wrongfully convicted three times for the 1992 rape and murder of 11-year-old Holly Staker in Waukegan, Illinois. He was convicted twice on the basis of a confession that he said was coerced. No physical evidence linked him to the crime scene.
CWC Client Juan Rivera walked out of Stateville Correctional Center on January 6, 2012, after Lake County State's Attorney Michael Waller announced that the state would not appeal a unanimous Illinois Appellate Court decision throwing out Rivera's conviction for the 1992 murder of 11-year-old Holly Staker in Waukegan.
May 2, 2022 · In October 2012, he filed a federal wrongful conviction lawsuit against Lake County law enforcement officials alleging they framed him. The lawsuit was settled in March 2015 for $20 million--the largest such settlement in Illinois history.
May 22, 2015 · In 1993, Juan Rivera, a resident of Waukegan, Illinois, was sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder, a year earlier, of an eleven-year-old girl named Holly Staker. For more than...
Mar 22, 2015 · Rivera's $20 million settlement is believed to be the largest pre-trial settlement of an individual case of wrongful conviction in U.S. history. Mr. Rivera's civil case was a collaborative effort of Loevy & Loevy and the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center at Northwestern University Law School.
vi. juan rivera’s conviction must be reversed because the trial court improperly excluded evidence that would have rebutted the prosecution’s claim that rivera told police facts that only the killer could know. ..... 92 a.
Jun 24, 2016 · Juan Rivera Jr. — wrongly convicted for the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl — has been awarded $1 million for every year he spent in prison.
