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Freelance journalist Matthew Bremner said a similar experience in his own life — the accidental injury of infant son — caused him to revisit the story about a father accused of killing his 3-year-old daughter, Christina McNeil.
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New evidence in the murder case that sent Barton McNeil to prison for life in the death of his 3-year-old daughter would likely be inadmissible at a second trial, a McLean County judge has ruled.
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The woman accused by Barton McNeil of killing his 3-year-daughter, a crime that sent him to prison for 99 years, denied during a dramatic post-conviction hearing on Tuesday that she was responsible for the girl’s death.
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A judge has set a Nov. 21 hearing to allow lawyers for Barton McNeil to present new potential evidence to challenge his 1998 murder conviction.
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Child welfare records related to child abuse committed by Misook Nowlin can be used by Barton McNeil in his challenge to his 1998 murder conviction in his daughter's death, a judge ruled Tuesday at a hearing in McLean County court.
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Lawyers for Barton McNeil should not be allowed to introduce evidence to support his claims that his former girlfriend confessed to the murder that put him behind bars for life, the state argues in a motion filed in McNeil’s petition for a new trial.
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Barton McNeil was convicted of in the 1998 death of his 3-year-old daughter, Christina. McNeil has denied any involvement in the child’s death. He has urged Bloomington police to investigate his former girlfriend, Misook Nowlin, a woman with a history of violence and child abuse, as a possible suspect.
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Bart McNeil's attorneys will get a hearing on the claim that McNeil's former girlfriend confessed to the 1998 killing of McNeil's daughter; the claim was not heard during his bench trial. A judge rejected multiple other defense arguments for new hearings.
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The "Does Innocence Matter?" rally focused on decades-long court battles that Jamie Snow and Bart McNeil have fought to have their murder convictions overturned.
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Lawyers for Bart McNeil asked a judge on Thursday to approve a full evidentiary hearing on McNeil’s innocence claim in the death of his 3-year-old daughter.