Local Pantagraph News Headlines 1998-1999 reveals Barton McNeil’s Saga month-by-month. See the steps taken by local authorities to obtain a conviction against an innocent man

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Barton’s Evidentiary Hearing is Tuesday, November 21st at 9 am. Twelve years since Misook Strangled Linda. It takes on average a year to charge someone and to wrongfully convict. Conversely it takes on average 12 years in the courts to undo an unjust conviction. This is where Barton is. Twelve years after Misook strangled Linda and the Illinois Innocence Project recognized his innocence and took on his case. Look at local newspaper headlines showing the progression of Barton’s wrongful conviction ending in his prediction Misook would go onto kill again.

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