{"id":3053,"date":"2022-10-25T20:08:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T02:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2023-01-15T19:01:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T02:01:27","slug":"2022-october-25-news-article-wmbd-cbs-fox-news-judge-tosses-out-al-but-one-piece-of-evidence-in-mcneil-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/?p=3053","title":{"rendered":"2022 October 25 News Article \u2013 WMBD CBS\/Fox News \u2013 Judge tosses out all but one piece of evidence in McNeil appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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by: Austin Schick<\/a> | Posted: Oct 25, 2022 | Updated: Oct 25, 2022 \/ 05:48 PM CDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) \u2014 A Bloomington man convicted in 1999 for the 1998 murder of his daughter has a slim chance of being exonerated for the crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A judge ruled Barton McNeil will receive a hearing on one piece of newly found evidence that could help him in his fight for exoneration. In a written statement, Judge William Yoder ruled a hearing is necessary to evaluate claims that McNeil\u2019s ex-girlfriend Misook Nowlin admitted to murdering McNeil\u2019s daughter, Christina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bart McNeil looks to prove innocence in daughter\u2019s murder<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The State conceded this claim in its motion to dismiss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Judge Yoder sided with the state on all other claims of innocence including newly found DNA evidence. Yoder ruled it is not \u201cconclusive evidence\u201d that would change likely change the result of a trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McNeil is serving a 99 year prison sentence for the suffocation death of his daughter Christina in 1998. Since then, McNeil has maintained no wrongdoing and has continued to fight for a new trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McNeil has always pinned the crime on Nowlin, who\u201313 years after his daughter\u2019s death\u2013killed her mother-in-law in an unrelated killing. Judge Yoder ruled that is merely an \u201cinteresting fact\u201d and \u201cis in no way relevant to the defendant\u2019s claim of actual innocence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Illinois Innocence Project and Illinois Exoneration Project both currently represent McNeil. Those projects take on less than 5% of cases presented to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barton McNeil\u2019s team provides \u2018proof of innocence\u2019 in court Thursday<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Ross, Barton McNeil\u2019s cousin and advocate issued a written statement slamming Yoder and his decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe judges ruling, that should never have taken this long, is both appalling and egregious,\u201d stated Ross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ross\u2019 statement also reads, \u201cJudge William Yoder has now put a blight and stain on the county of McLean and the entire American criminal justice system and how we citizens believe it should work. \u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WMBD reached out to McLean County State\u2019s Attorney Erika Reynolds who did not return our call as of this writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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