"The Curtis
Lovelace trial returns to the spotlight Friday when NBC presents a
two-hour "Dateline" on a case that captivated the region for more than
two years. WGEM, the NBC affiliate in Quincy, will play a major role in the prime-time broadcast set to air from 8 to 10 p.m. "We are pleased to be involved," said Chad
Mahoney, WGEM news director. "We'll be able to provide local viewers
with some insight they would not otherwise have. From the beginning, NBC
reached out to us." Mahoney said WGEM will be airing an interview
with Dennis Murphy, the NBC reporter who covered the Lovelace case,
before the "Dateline" broadcast. The interview with Murphy will be
featured at 6:45 a.m. Friday and again on WGEM's 5 p.m. newscast. NBC and WGEM cooperated throughout the case and afterward, Mahoney said. "NBC will be trying to give the rest of the
nation an idea of what Quincy is all about," he said. "They will be
using a lot of footage we have provided them. Much of what viewers will
be seeing Friday night on the broadcast will have been provided by
(WGEM)." Lovelace, a former Adams County assistant
state's attorney and past president of the Quincy School Board, was
found not guilty in March of first-degree murder in connection with the
death of his first wife, Cory, on Feb. 14, 2006. Lovelace was acquitted by a Sangamon County
jury after his second trial. An Adams County jury was unable to reach a
verdict after two days of deliberations in February 2016, and a mistrial
was declared. Mahoney thinks viewers will find the interview with Murphy insightful. "He was a reporter who followed the case and was at both trials," he said. "He wasn't just sitting at a desk in New York." Lovelace had been arrested 30 months before his acquittal at the start of what is now a three-year odyssey that continues today. After his verdict, Lovelace filed a civil rights lawsuit against the city of Quincy, multiple officers with the
Quincy Police Department, Adams County and two county officials. That
trial is scheduled to begin in October 2019. He and his wife, Christine, have moved to the Champaign area."
See previous post of this Blog - May 16, 2017 - at the link below: Curtis Lovelace: Illinois; White Elephant Case? 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
