{"id":852,"date":"2014-08-02T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/?p=852"},"modified":"2021-06-17T06:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T12:20:19","slug":"inmate-argues-for-dna-tests-to-clear-murder-charges-pantograph-aug-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"2014 August 2 News Article \u2013 Inmate argues for DNA tests to clear murder charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>August 02, 2014 7:00 am \u2022 Edith Brady-Lunny eblunny@pantagraph.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Barton-at-his-hearing-August-1st-image-2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/freebart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Barton-at-his-hearing-August-1st-image-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Barton-at-his-hearing-August-1st-image-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Barton-at-his-hearing-August-1st-image-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/freebart.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Barton-at-his-hearing-August-1st-image-2.jpg 831w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Barton at his August 1st, 2014 DNA hearing.&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Bart McNeil waves to family and friends as he attends a hearing to answer his request for DNA testing of evidence collected from the scene of his daughter Christina&#8217;s murder in 1999.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BLOOMINGTON \u2014 Lawyers for a man serving life in prison for the 1998 death of his daughter argued Friday that forensic tests on crime scene evidence \u2014 including her clothing and a spider web on a window screen \u2014 could clear his name and expose the child&#8217;s true killer&#8230;.CLICK THE BELOW LINK TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pantagraph.com\/news\/local\/crime-and-courts\/inmate-argues-for-dna-tests-to-clear-murder-charges\/article_33c354b7-911d-5bb2-8a9e-3de5632fba63.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pantagraph Article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 02, 2014 7:00 am \u2022 Edith Brady-Lunny eblunny@pantagraph.com Bart McNeil waves to family and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-older-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"jeanne.ross","author_link":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/?author=4"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/freebart.org\/?cat=94\" rel=\"category\">Older News<\/a>","tag_info":"Older News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freebart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}