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How Judge William Yoder Pulled a Fast One on the two innocence projects

This speaks volumes as to how Judges like William Yoder of the 11th Circuit Court, the former McLean County State’s Attorney who was opposed to Barton’s self authored appeal in 2005 for when he was a State’s Attorney before becoming a judge, and refused to bring to the attention of Barton in 2011 that Misook strangled to death Linda Tyda despite this being an Illinois Supreme Court requirement that any new evidence be brought to the attention of the incarcerated individual (as otherwise how do they find out about it!?), AND to appoint a legal representative (Yoder did not do this either), can pull a fast one on the legal team when in the aid of a willing First Assistant States Attorney.

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Chris Ross, cousin of Barton McNeil, lives in San Diego and is an unwavering advocate for his innocence. For thirteen years there were no breaks to reverse the fate that had befallen a loving father no person can imagine. Then in September 2011 his violent estranged girlfriend Misook Nowlin Wang, always the known second leading suspect in his daughter’s 1998 murder, returned to Bloomington and strangled to death her mother-in-law in a macabre premediated murder. A murder in which she buried her mother-in-law at a post-midnight hour in the presence of her 5-year-old son. She exacted revenge against her husband Don Wang for having an extramarital affair just as she avenged Barton 13 years earlier for breaking up with her leaving her the classic woman scorned.

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How Judge William Yoder Pulled a Fast One on the two innocence projects

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