Some lesser known facts about the case:

The cops needed a "legal" case to stop Raymond from running for Governor of Illinois, so they manufactured a domestic battery case, and tried to manufacture evidence to support it, but they only had control over their local court and jail; anyone outside of that influence was a risky wildcard, like the emergency room doctor they needed to get an abuse diagnosis from, but the court transcripts show that the doctor could find NO EVIDENCE of the beating the cops claimed had just happened, and the doctor didn't even understand why the lead police detective personally brought her to the hospital, because according to the doctor's written statement in the court transcripts, she said "I feel fine", so there never was any evidence of the charges of felony battery the cops made against Raymond.

1. The cops that kidnapped and drugged his fiancée were getting scared when they found out Raymond had contacted federal law enforcement agencies to rescue her, so to make it look like she was with them willingly, one of the cops involved "married her", so they could have more legal and medical control over her.

2. The court transcripts show that the lead police detective admitted on the stand that he "ordered" that no one was allowed to drug test her, even though there were court filings to have it done... They even blocked psychiatric commitment court orders that would have rescued her.

3. They blocked lawyers and private investigators from speaking to Raymond while he was being held for years in their jail, and they blocked his phone calls and mail to federal law enforcement agencies.

4. They had his elderly mother in jail, and she was only allowed pre-trial release when a substitute judge was on the bench for a day.

5. They refused to release Raymond; refused to allow him an outside attorney; refused to give him a jury trial (even though it was ordered by a higher court), and forced him to sign a guilty plea, or they would put his mother back in jail to die... He signed to save his mother, and he was then sent to prison on a plea that said he and his fiancée "slapped each other" (an allegation no one made), which under their own law, would not have been more than a low-level first offense misdemeanor.