The Fourth Judicial District Illinois Appellate Court staged two hearings for People v. Barton McNeil and People v. James Snow Tuesday morning at the Bone Student Center. Both cases involve two local men convicted of murder and claim they were wrongfully convicted.
People v. McNeil (10 a.m.)
Barton McNeil was convicted in 1999 for murdering his daughter, Christina McNeil, in 1998. A decade later, McNeil’s ex-girlfriend, Misook Nowlin-Wang, was convicted of murdering her mother-in-law, Linda Tyda. This reopened Barton McNeil’s case to reconsider his previous claim that Nowlin-Wang had murdered Christina…