{"id":1863,"date":"2021-02-25T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2023-01-21T23:14:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T06:14:12","slug":"2021-february-25-news-article-bloomington-father-convicted-of-killing-young-daughter-in-1998-seeks-new-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/?p=1863","title":{"rendered":"2021 February 25 News Article – Bloomington father convicted of killing young daughter in 1998 seeks new trial (NBC Channel 25)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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February 25, 2021 12:18 am by Howard Packowitz <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BLOOMINGTON (WEEK) – McLean County’s chief prosecutor says his office is reviewing a 1998 Bloomington murder case in which a local man is now demanding a new trial on charges he killed his three-year old daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State’s Attorney Don Knapp’s office must decide how to respond to Barton McNeil’s petition filed this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McNeil, 61, is serving a 100-year prison sentence for smothering Christina McNeil, but he’s asking for an evidentiary hearing to show newly-discovered DNA evidence would have led to McNeil’s acquittal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The petition says if the child’s death was a homicide, evidence indicated McNeil’s ex-girlfriend, Misook Nowlin, also known as Misook Wang, was the killer, having been convicted of a “separate, hauntingly similar murder” 13 years after McNeil’s conviction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She’s now serving a 55 year sentence at the Logan County Correctional Center for her ex-mother-in-law’s murder and concealment of the homicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DNA testing can not rule out McNeil’s ex-girlfriend was at the murder scene, McNeil’s petition said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The DNA evidence confirming Misook’s presence in Christina’s deathbed is sufficient to entitle McNeil to a new trial,” the petition also said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The University of Chicago Law School’s Exoneration Project and the Illinois Innocence Project, based at the University of Illinois-Springfield are representing McNeil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The McLean County Circuit Clerk’s Office said no court date has been scheduled yet on McNeil’s motion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Illinois Department of Corrections said McNeil is serving his sentence at the Pickneyville Correctional Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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