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Sexual assault charges pending for seven years were dismissed Friday against Jeffrey Martin, a Normal man sentenced in February to 28 years in prison for possession of child pornography.
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Jeffrey Martin also faces a trial in March on sexual assault charges.
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Jeffrey Martin was convicted by a jury on Thursday of 10 counts of child pornography following a three-day trial in which he was cited 51 times for contempt of court.
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Closing arguments will be delivered Thursday in the raucous child pornography trial of Jeffrey Martin.
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In 2016, Jeffrey Martin was charged with sexual assault of the elderly woman. He was later accused of possession of child pornography in connection with images found on a computer seized by police from the woman’s home.
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Jeffrey Martin was charged in 2016 with sexual assault of an elderly woman with whom he was staying in Normal. He was later accused of possessing child pornography in connection with images found on a computer seized by police from the woman’s home.
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Jeffrey Martin, of Normal, is charged in two felony cases dating back to 2017 when he was arrested for allegedly raping an elderly woman with whom he was staying.
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Jeffrey Martin’s practice of hiring and firing his lawyers continued on Friday as a Chicago attorney was allowed to sever ties with the case, leaving Martin to serve as his own lawyer on sexual assault and child pornography charges pending since 2016.
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A fitness hearing for a man in custody for more than 6 ½ years on rape charges was postponed on Thursday after the defendant refused to stop yelling at the judge about his intention to fire his lawyer. Jeffrey Martin, 57, of Normal was removed from the courtroom by Judge William Yoder following his outburst about his lawyer, Gigi Gilbert, of Chicago.
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McLean County’s longest pending court cases are back on track following Jeffrey Martin’s success in hiring a new lawyer to handle sexual assault and child pornography charges filed against him in 2016.