SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - The attorney representing the former Illinois prosecutor charged with first-degree murder says evidence not available during the defendant’s first trial has turned up.
Former Adams County Assistant State’s Attorney Curtis Lovelace is accused in the 2006 death of 38-year-old Cory Lovelace. His first trial ended with a deadlocked jury.
During Wednesday’s opening statements, Jon Loevy said he has emails exchanged between Quincy Police Det. Adam Gibson and medical professionals Gibson sought opinions from on how Cory Lovelace died.
Loevy said the first seven people Gibson contacted said there was no apparent evidence of foul play. But on his eighth try, Gibson found a pathologist willing to say Cory Lovelace’s death may have been a homicide. Loevy says it was on that opinion Lovelace was indicted.
Prosecutor David Robinson contended in his opening statement evidence will show Lovelace killed his wife.
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