"The second murder trial for former Adams County prosecutor Curtis
Lovelace has been moved from Adams County to Sangamon County due to the
amount of pre-trial news coverage.
Quincy television station KHQA
reported on its webpage Friday that Judge Bob Hardwick also ruled that
Lovelace’s new trial will be pushed back until Jan. 23. The judge told
the television station that the media attention left him no choice but
to change the venue.........Lovelace,
who played football at the University of Illinois, is a former Adams
County assistant state’s attorney and a former Quincy School Board
member. He is accused of murdering his first wife, Cory Lovelace,
on Valentine's Day in 2006, whose cause of death was initially
undetermined. His first trial ended in a mistrial in February after
jurors couldn't reach a unanimous decision. The pathologist who
failed to pinpoint why Cory Lovelace died in 2006 is the same one who
has had her work discredited in other death investigations, including
one involving a 2-year-old boy in Sangamon County. Jessica
Bowman’s ruling of the cause of Lovelace’s death as inconclusive left
the case open until Curtis Lovelace was charged in August 2014 with
killing her. Authorities say Bowman missed what they now consider
glaring evidence that Cory Lovelace — a 38-year-old mother of four —
died from foul play. A coroner’s jury reached the same conclusion as Bowman’s, and Cory Lovelace’s body was cremated. But
two other pathologists who reviewed the case file at the request of
police in 2014 found that Cory Lovelace had been suffocated and did not
die of flu-like symptoms as investigators say Curtis Lovelace initially
insisted.
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