Press Release: 2010

Victim Impact Statements in Gilbert Knowles case.

December 1 Victim Impact Statement of Julie Miller (Devin’s mother) Dear your Honor, Gilbert Knowles has single handedly ruined several families lives by his actions on September 17,2007. He has made every parents worst nightmare come true. I don’t know how any human being could hurt a child and do the things that Gilbert did […]

Morris man found guilty of killing 2-year-old boy

August 19 JOLIET – Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow announced today (Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010) that a judge has found a Morris man guilty of beating to death his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son three years ago. Gilbert Knowles, 35, was found guilty by Circuit Judge Richard Schoenstedt on two counts of first-degree murder for the […]

Joliet man gets 4-1/2 years for brutal battery of his wife

August 19 JOLIET – Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow announced today (Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010) that a Joliet man has been sentenced to 4-1/2 years in prison for the brutal battery of his wife over the course of two days last year. Erick Mercado-Hernandez, 29, of Joliet, pleaded guilty in June to one count […]