A public defender for Maurice Slaughter III said prosecutors brought forth unreliable witnesses and little physical evidence to support Slaughter s culpability.
The woman suffered permanent disfigurement to the right side of her body, including her neck, thigh and stomach. "She will never forget you," the judge said.
An attorney previously requested the defendant, who has schizophrenia, be released to home detention because he was being held in isolation at the Lake County Jail for 23 hours a