{"id":3580,"date":"2023-07-24T11:05:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T17:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/?p=3580"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:07:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T17:07:50","slug":"2023-july-19-news-article-wmbd-date-set-for-post-conviction-hearing-in-barton-mcneil-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/?p=3580","title":{"rendered":"July 19 News Article WMBD – November 21 2023 Date set for post-conviction hearing in Barton McNeil case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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WMBD News | By Andy Kravetz<\/strong> | Published July 19, 2023 at 5:14 PM CDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (WMBD) \u2014 A man who has been fighting for years to prove he didn\u2019t kill his 3-year-old daughter now has a date when he make his case before a judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barton McNeil will argue before McLean County Circuit Judge William Yoder<\/a> what he thinks will land him a new trial. The third-stage post-conviction hearing on Nov. 21 will be limited to two things \u2014 child welfare records and a confession by another person \u2014 that were contained in McNeil\u2019s petition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Team McNeil is helped by attorneys, from the Illinois Innocence Project<\/a> and the Exoneration Project<\/a>, which took on his case years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A motion hearing is set for June in the Barton McNeil case<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

McNeil is in the process of attacking his 25-year-old first-degree murder conviction through the post-conviction process, a form of an appeal that goes through the trial court, not an appellate court. Yoder, speaking from the bench, said he wouldn\u2019t allow in additional evidence sought by McNeil\u2019s attorneys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Judge tosses out all but one piece of evidence in McNeil appeal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a hearing in June, Yoder noted a post-conviction hearing wasn\u2019t a mini trial on the original issues but only to gauge whether there was enough evidence to suggest that a new trial was needed.<\/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

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