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A state appeals court has ruled that a Woodford County judge did not properly consider the level of impairment before sentencing a woman to 11 years in prison after a fatal DUI crash in 2022.
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The Illinois Supreme Court has formally appointed a northern Illinois judge to the appellate court for the district that includes McLean County.
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An Illinois State University graduate, Raylene DeWitte Grischow, is the newest appellate judge in Central Illinois.
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The Fourth District Appellate Court is upholding the 18-month prison sentence Jeffrey Reinking received for illegally returning to his son an AR-15 Bushmaster rifle that he later used in a Tennessee mass shooting that left four people dead.
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Jeffrey Reinking was convicted in 2022 of illegally giving his son Travis Reinking an assault-style weapon he used in a 2018 shooting that left four dead at a Waffle House in Tennessee. A Tazwell County judge sentenced Reinking to 18 months in prison for delivery of a firearm to a person who had been treated for mental illness within five years.
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Michael Luedtke complained of a knee injury following an altercation with a man during an Aug. 24, 2018, response to a call involving a woman with self-inflicted injuries on Rainbow Circle.
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UPDATED 2:50 p.m. | The Fourth District Appellate Court has reversed a ruling allowing Don Whalen a new trial on murder charges and sent the case back to…
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Alan Beaman is not entitled to a jury trial on his claim that three former Normal police detectives conspired to wrongfully convict him of murder, the…
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Lawyers for Don Whalen renewed their arguments Wednesday in support of a new trial for Whalen on murder charges in the 1991 beating death of his…
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A former Bloomington man exonerated of murder charges is entitled to a jury trial on his claims that three retired Normal police officers played a…