Expert offers new take on DNA evidence as former custodian pushes for new trial

Just over two years after Stavros Iliopoulos was convicted of forcing a child into a janitor's closet at Northwoods Community Elementary School and committing a sexual assault, his appellate attorney is arguing the former custodian's trial attorney provided "ineffective assistance of counsel" and the jury might have come to a different decision if the defense attorney had secured an expert to review the state's DNA findings. (subscriber access)

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• By Heather Schaefer and Jamie Taylor-
• November 29, 2021