Where a final judgment occurred, a Rule 54(b) motion to reconsider was inappropriate and the U.S. District Court did not commit abuse of discretion in denying it. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a decision by U.S. District Judge Michael P. McCuskey, Central District of Illinois. In 1987, Gordon Steidl and Herbert Whitlock were wrongfully accused of, prosecuted for and convicted of arson and murder of two residents in downstate Paris. Both Steidl and Whitlock received death sentences. Steidl was …