PEOPLE v. BOWMAN

No. 5-01-0340.

782 N.E.2d 333 (2002)

335 Ill. App.3d 1142

270 Ill.Dec. 139

The PEOPLE of the State of Illinois, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Gregory BOWMAN, Defendant-Appellee.

Appellate Court of Illinois, Fifth District.

December 27, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Haida, State's Attorney, St. Clair County, Belleville; Norbert J. Goetten, Director, Stephen E. Norris, Deputy Director, Gerry R. Arnold, Staff Attorney, Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Mt. Vernon, for Appellant.

Al W. Johnson, Johnson, Fellows, Blake & Terry, St. Louis, MO; Stephen B. Evans, Deeba Sauter Herd, St. Louis, MO, for Appellee.


Presiding Justice HOPKINS delivered the opinion of the court:

Gregory Bowman (defendant) was convicted in 1979 for the murders of two young women. Twenty years later, a newspaper article alleged a previously unknown collaboration between the detective to whom defendant confessed and a cellblock mate of defendant's during the time of his confession. Defendant filed a postconviction petition asserting that the new information rendered his confession coerced and his...

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