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Another poor “immigrant” just here to get a job that no American will want. (barf)

‘Brutal and out of line’
Illegal immigrant faces deportation for attack
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April 24, 2010
By BETH KRAMER ekramer@stmedianetwork.com

After violently throwing his ex-girlfriend against the wall and then dragging her up a flight of stairs to a bedroom, Eduardo Juarez of Round Lake Beach man then attempted to choke the woman to death.

Pretending to be dead, the woman then listened to Juarez talk on the phone, discussing how to dispose of her body, according to Assistant State’s Attorney Fred Day.

“This altercation with the defendant nearly cost her life,” Day said at the man’s sentencing hearing Friday.

In January, a jury found Juarez, 39, guilty of unlawful restraint and battery for the April 4, 2009, attack. The jury acquitted him of attempted murder and aggravated battery.

“What happened in this case was brutal and out of line,” Associate Judge Daniel Shanes said.

He sentenced Juarez to three years in prison, the maximum penalty.

Day asked the court to impose the three-year sentence, calling the defendant’s actions “heinously cruel” behavior.

“The defendant is a man of many faces. He is a master manipulator. I imagine he feels he is in control as he sits at the defendant table,” Day said.

Defense attorney Eric Rinehardt asked the court for probation instead of prison.

“He has alcohol and perhaps anger issues — exactly the situation for probation and counseling,” Rinehardt said.

He also said Juarez has been involved in church and baptized since the incident.

Shanes said it was “good” that Juarez was attending church because it shows that he is “trying to reach improvement.”

However, Shanes proceeded to list the Juarez’s criminal history, which includes a battery in 1991, attempted forgery in 1992, obstruction of justice in 2000 and a federal crime that resulted in deportation in 2002.

A few months after being deported, Juarez returned to the United States illegally, Shanes said.

“Some would say that by being here in the country illegally, the defendant is committing a crime every day,” Shanes said.

Federal authorities may decide to deport Juarez after he serves his prison sentence, Shanes said.

Juarez addressed the court through an interpreter and talked about how he was trying to change himself by going to church.

“I do want to ask for forgiveness and to get the opportunity to show I can be a better person,” Juarez said.

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