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The following document is a post-hearing memorandum that Luke Wenke’s public defender, Frank Passafiume, submitted to the court following an evidentiary proceeding that was held to determine whether Wenke suffers from a mental disease or defect warranting involuntary treatment. Passafiume outright accuses the prosecution’s expert…

The transcripts below (contained within two separate PDF viewers) feature word-for-word accounts of what was said during an evidentiary hearing to determine whether Luke Wenke needed involuntary mental health treatment. The proceedings took place on February 18th, 2025 and April 10th, 2025 at the Robert…

Luke Wenke mailed this letter to the Honorable John L. Sinatra, Jr. in October of 2024 while detained at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Chicago, Illinois. USA v. Luke Wenke – Letter October 25th, 2024 CASE #1:22-cr-00035, DOC. #160 Katie Mentions: 1 To…

Luke Wenke sent the following letter to the Honorable John L. Sinatra, Jr. in the fall of 2024 while detained at the Chicago Metropolitan Correction Center. In it, he wonders how I somehow knew he had been placed in solitary confinement at the Orleans County…

Luke Wenke sent the following letter (Doc. #165-1) to the Honorable Lawrence J. Vilardo — a federal judge completely uninvolved in Wenke’s case — in the fall of 2024 while detained at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City. In keeping with his known tendency…