Larry Scott - Cook County State's Attorney

Strayhorn decided there were no mitigating factors sufficient to preclude the death penalty, and
he sentenced Petitioner to death for the murder of Kristen Kent. He also imposed a 30 year term
of imprisonment for the aggravated criminal sexual assault.
The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed Petitioner's convictions and sentence on direct
appeal, see People v. Scott, 148 Ill. 2d 479 (1992), and the United States Supreme Court refused
to hear his case. Petitioner then returned to the circuit court where Judge Strayhorn denied his
post-conviction petition in 1997. The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed petition dismissal in
People v. Scott, 194 Ill. 2d 268 (2000). Petitioner currently has a habeas petition pending before
Judge Marvin Aspen of the United States District Court in Scott v. Schomig, No. 02 C 0631.
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