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Inexplicably, Jury Finds Speeding Cab Driver Who Killed Eric Kerestes Not Guilty
In what looks to be a stunning miscarriage of justice, a jury acquitted the taxi driver, who struck and killed the pedestrian while speeding at a terrifying velocity in 2012.
July 31, 2017
Cabbie Who Killed Eric Kerestes Seriously Injured Man in 1998, Still Driving
Not long after taxi driver John Kesse killed Eric Kerestes last summer, another of Kesse’s victims contacted me. On August 14 the cabbie was speeding down Milwaukee Avenue at 6 a.m. when he blew through the Milwaukee/Chicago/Ogden intersection, jumped a curb and struck Kerestes, who was walking to the Blue Line’s Chicago station. The pedestrian was thrown 200 feet; he died at the scene.
April 18, 2013