STORY: "2019 trial date set in Lovelace Federal suit," by reporter Scott Hardy, published by WTAD.
GIST: "A tentative 2019 trial date has been set in the Federal civil suit filed by Curtis Lovelace and his family against the City of Quincy, several Quincy Police officers, Adams County and two County officials. Court records show that after a telephone meeting last Thursday, a tentative trial date of October 15, 2019 was set for the case. A pre-trial hearing will be held two weeks before then, on September 30, 2019. The former prosecutor, his wife Christine and their three sons must tell the court what experts they plan to hire by next September. The city, QPD Detective Adam Gibson, Chief Rob Copley and three other officers, along with the County, State's Attorney Gary Farha and Coroner Jim Keller, must submit their experts by January 2019. Lovelace is claiming that evidence used in the two murder trials was fabricated and withheld from his defense. He also claims that Gibson and the QPD tried to frame him. The defendants have denied the charges. Lovelace and his family filed the suit two months after being acquitted by a Sangamon County jury in March of one count of 1st degree murder in the 2006 death of his first wife Cory. The suit has not specified damages."
The entire story can be found at:
http://www.wtad.com/2019-trial-date-set-in-lovelace-federal-suit.html
For background, see earlier post of this Blog (May 16, 2017) at the link below: "The former prosecutor has filed a federal lawsuit for damages two months after being found not guilty in connection with the death of his first wife - including a claim that evidence was fabricated to implicate him in the Feb. 14, 2006, death of his first wife, Cory - and that exculpatory evidence that his attorneys said helped prove his innocence was initially withheld, such as emails not provided in discovery during the first trial. (This included an email from prosecution witness Dr. Scott Denton, a forensic pathologist. In the email, Denton said that unless Dr. Jessica Bowman, who performed the autopsy on Cory Lovelace, amended her report from “undetermined,” reasonable doubt would exist in the case.)...“In fact, during the course of his investigation Detective Gibson revealed numerous pieces of exculpatory information and information that confirmed that Cory Lovelace was not the victim of murder,” the lawsuit read. “Despite this, Gibson persisted in his investigation. Ultimately, in an effort to bring charges against Curtis Lovelace, the above-named individual defendants restored to fabricating evidence, coercing witnesses, presenting false information to the grand jury to obtain an indictment, withholding and concealing exculpatory evidence and other unlawful acts in an effort to frame Mr. Lovelace for a crime he did not commit.”
http://smithforensic.blogspot.ca/2017/05/curtis-lovelace-illinois-white-elephant.html
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/c
