Witness testimony will be heard at Kirk Zimmerman’s trial

Posted on April 25, 2017
McLean County Judge Scott Drazewski has allowed Maria Legg’s testimony to be heard at Kirk Zimmerman’s trial. (WJBC File Photo)

By Howard Packowitz

BLOOMINGTON – A woman will be allowed to testify at trial that she saw Bloomington murder suspect Kirk Zimmerman outside the office building where Zimmerman’s wife was killed in 2014.

McLean County Judge Scott Drazewski says he’ll leave it up the jury to determine the reliability and credibility of Maria Legg’s testimony. Legg claims she was in the parking lot outside the office building where Pamela Zimmerman was shot several times in November 2014. She said she saw a while professional looking man with gray hair generally consistent with Kirk Zimmerman’s appearance.

Legg didn’t go to police. They came to her on a tip about a year and a half later and she made in the words of Zimmerman’s lawyer one of the worst out of court identifications I’ve ever seen. When police finally talked to Legg and her husband the couple failed to mention they had seen Mrs. Zimmerman going to their house to buy a coffee table in the summer of 2014. It was many months later when they made that revelation.

Howard Packowitz can be reached at [email protected].

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