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Bart McNeil's attorneys will get a hearing on the claim that McNeil's former girlfriend confessed to the 1998 killing of McNeil's daughter; the claim was not heard during his bench trial. A judge rejected multiple other defense arguments for new hearings.
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The "Does Innocence Matter?" rally focused on decades-long court battles that Jamie Snow and Bart McNeil have fought to have their murder convictions overturned.
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Lawyers for Bart McNeil asked a judge on Thursday to approve a full evidentiary hearing on McNeil’s innocence claim in the death of his 3-year-old daughter.
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Bart McNeil is entitled to a thorough review of newly-discovered evidence in the death of his 3-year-old daughter, McNeil’s lawyers argued in a new court filing related to his petition for a new trial on murder charges.
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Evidence that Christina McNeil was murdered by someone other than her father was challenged on Friday by the state in a motion to dismiss Bart McNeil’s petition for a new trial on charges that he suffocated the 3-year-old.
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An amended petition seeking a new trial for Misook Nowlin on murder charges in the 2011 death of her mother-in-law will be filed by mid-May, Nowlin’s lawyer told a judge at a court hearing on Tuesday.
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A hearing on new evidence that could clear Bart McNeil of murder was delayed on Friday by at least five months after a prosecutor said the state will first seek dismissal of McNeil’s petition for a new trial.
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The state will determine its next move by early December in the post-conviction proceedings of a Bloomington man working to clear his name of murder charges.
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Bart McNeil’s petition seeking a new trial in the 1998 death of his young daughter will move forward in McLean County court, a judge has ruled, in a decision that recognizes potential new evidence that may support McNeil’s innocence.
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New evidence in the 1998 death of 3-year-old Christina McNeil exonerates her father of murder charges, according to a petition filed on Tuesday by lawyers…