{"id":3444,"date":"2023-03-26T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/?p=3444"},"modified":"2023-03-26T08:34:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T14:34:40","slug":"2023-march-17-news-article-the-pantagraph-motion-hearing-set-in-barton-mcneils-exoneration-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/?p=3444","title":{"rendered":"2023 March 24 News Article \u2013 The Pantagraph \u2013 Motion hearing set in Barton McNeil&#8217;s exoneration effort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-4.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"851\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/freebart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-4.png 851w, https:\/\/freebart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-4-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/freebart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-4-768x538.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Barton McNeil, 55, photographed April 5, 2022, at the Pinckneyville Correctional Center. McNeil is seeking exoneration from his murder conviction in the 1998 death of his 3-year-old daughter, Christina, in Bloomington.    PROVIDED BY FAMILY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-3.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"258\" height=\"77\" src=\"https:\/\/freebart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3059\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pantagraph.com\/users\/profile\/Kelsey%20Watznauer\">Kelsey Watznauer<\/a> |\u00a0 March 24, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BLOOMINGTON \u2014 A McLean County judge will hear arguments in June on motions filed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pantagraph.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/judge-allows-hearing-in-1998-bloomington-murder-case-appeal\/article_da96489c-547f-11ed-83cf-ab8032bc86fc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>in the now decades-old case against Barton McNeil<\/strong><\/a>, who is seeking exoneration on murder charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McNeil, 63, is serving a 100-year sentence, having been convicted in 1999 in the suffocation death of his 3-year-old daughter, Christina. Since his arrest,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pantagraph.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/mcneils-lawyers-urge-court-to-hear-all-evidence-in-innocence-claim-in-1998-murder\/article_5600b9c5-7186-5a2a-9d64-42eb77d3305d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>he has maintained his innocence<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;and argued his ex-girlfriend, Misook Nowlin, committed the murder.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pantagraph.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/bloomington-woman-convicted-in-11-murder-continues-pursuit-of-new-trial\/article_b753ea36-f4f3-5f06-8625-5120eaa534ec.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Nowlin is serving a 55-year prison sentence<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;on murder charges for the 2011 strangulation death of her 70-year-old mother-in-law, Linda Tyda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pantagraph.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/judge-allows-hearing-in-1998-bloomington-murder-case-appeal\/article_da96489c-547f-11ed-83cf-ab8032bc86fc.html#tracking-source=in-article\">&nbsp;Judge allows hearing in 1998 Bloomington murder case appeal<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McNeil&#8217;s defense attorneys with the Illinois Innocence Project and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pantagraph.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/dozens-protest-mclean-county-convictions\/article_a607547e-4032-11ed-a502-8b7c066dcc2d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>the Exoneration Project<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;filed two motions this month asking for an evidentiary hearing to introduce evidence involving McNeil\u2019s claims that Nowlin confessed to her ex-husband that she killed the girl, and asking for investigative material related to both of their cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judge William Yoder gave the McLean County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office 30 days to respond to the motions and two weeks for the defense to then respond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A hearing was set for June 6, when Yoder will hear arguments on the motions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelsey Watznauer |\u00a0 March 24, 2023 BLOOMINGTON \u2014 A McLean County judge will hear arguments&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[7,100,31,26,109,6,57,22,106,104],"class_list":["post-3444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-news-articles","tag-barton-mcneil","tag-charles-reynard","tag-christina-mcneil","tag-john-hanlon","tag-mclean-county","tag-misook-nowlin","tag-misook-nowlin-wang","tag-misook-wang","tag-stephanie-wong","tag-teena-griffin"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"chris.ross","author_link":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/?author=3"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/freebart.org\/?cat=95\" rel=\"category\">Current News Articles<\/a>","tag_info":"Current News Articles","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3447,"href":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3444\/revisions\/3447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}