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Local: Beaman conviction overturned

Via HOINews:

Alan Beaman was convicted in 1995 of murdering Jennifer Lockmiller in Normal.

Supreme Court Justices cited Beaman’s consitutional rights to due process were violated.

They say the state failed to disclose information about a viable alternative suspect in the murder.

The Journal Star has an article, too.

The Daily Vidette (the ISU student newspaper) quotes Beaman’s mother as saying there’s evidence he was in Rockford at the time of the murder.

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One Response to “Local: Beaman conviction overturned”

  1.   RomanII Says:
    May 25th, 2008 at 11:06 am

    Do we need to look any further than the present makeup of the Illinois Supreme Court? Too bad Richard Speck has died or they could find a way to give him a new trial also!