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Exhibit 7

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STATE OF ILLINOIS
SS

COUNTY OF LEE

OF VICTOR VERA

AFFIDAVIT
Vera being

Victor

best of

sworn do

duly

state

on oath

that

the following

facts

are true

to

the

my knowledge
was born on February 12

1.

ColTectional

currently

incarcerated

prepared

for

at

Dixon

Center.

understand

2.

that

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am

1971.

this

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is

affidavit

being

and

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that

this

the case

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affidavit

of People

filed

in

v.

Gabriel

court in that

case.

am

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given

me

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connection

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was

officers

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making

for

confessed

of Area

of

my own

this

free

statement.

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will.

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one has

offered promised

me

one has threatened

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is

nickname

rival

of Edwin Castaneda

the murder

and convicted

under coercion

of the Chicago Police

member of

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to

tried

confessed

falsely

Kings which

statement

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in

statement.

subsequently

time of the nmrder.

this

exchange

in

falsely

5.

police

making

the

was

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and received

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of 38 years

sentence

from Detective

Reynaldo

on April

place

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in prison.

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Department.

Cobras gang for three years including

Green Eyes. Edwin

gang of the Spanish Cobras.

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around the

member

of the

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of the murder and the

officers

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go

and

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hung

bullhorn

me

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death

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17.

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police

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stopped

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murder of Edwin Castaneda.

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18.

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where

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up

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confession.

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Attorney stating

that

the beating.

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initialed

signing

this

four-page

any necessary

affidavit

corrections

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to

this

have read and

affidavit.

initialed

each page and

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