Title: Wrongful Convictions? The Pursuit of Justice in Illinois

Date/Time: October 16, 7pm – 9pm
Location: Wesleyan University, Hansen Student Center, 300 E Beecher St, Bloomington, IL 61701

Press Release: https://www.iwu.edu/news/2018/events/panel-to-address-issues-of-wrongful-convictions.html

Tuesday’s panelists include: Curtis Lovelace, a current criminal defense attorney in Champaign who was tried for the murder of his wife and now works to help those wrongfully accused; Tammy Alexander, co-founder of the non-profit organization Justice for Illinois’ Wrongfully Convicted; and Tara Thompson, a partner at Loevy & Loevy law firm and an attorney with the University of Chicago’s Exoneration Project.

The panelists will discuss two local cases that are being represented by the Exoneration Project, which is dedicated to restoring justice by petitioning courts to reverse wrongful convictions. The cases include that of Barton McNeil who was convicted of killing his daughter in 1999, but claimed that his ex-girlfriend – who murdered her mother-in-law 12 years following McNeil’s trial – committed the crime instead. The other case involves Jamie Snow, a man convicted of murdering a gas station attendant in Bloomington in the ’90s.