A DeKalb County judge is telling a man who admitted killing an NIU student in 2010 that he cannot withdraw his guilty plea.
Judge Robbin Stuckert ruled that William Curl failed to show that his constitutional rights were denied when he pleaded guilty in 2013 to killing 18-year-old art student Antinette Keller of Plainfield.
Her burned body was found in Prairie Park in DeKalb days after she said she was going there to sketch.
Curl had argued that he was coerced into confessing by prosecutors who withheld medication from him and that his lawyers didn't do an adequate job. He's serving a 37-year sentence.
