Frank J. Wilson (died February 1990) was an American judge who served on the

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Circuit Court in

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. He is most notable for presiding in the murder trial of Chicago mobster

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, the only person in U.S. History to be tried a second time for the same crime by the same government after being acquitted (Aleman bribed Judge Wilson, and thus it was decided he was never in jeopardy, and thus could be retried). Frank J. Wilson eventually committed suicide with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after the bribe scheme was revealed.

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