Beaman granted Illinois Supreme Court hearing

Posted on December 15, 2017

By Eric Stock

SPRINGFIELD – Alan Beaman will get a hearing before the Illinois Supreme Court after all.

The high court has reversed course and agreed to hear the case Beaman has filed against the Town of Normal and three of its police officers, claiming they framed him for the arrest in Jennifer Lockmiller’s death in 1993.

Beaman spent nearly 13 years in prison before the court tossed out the conviction in 2008. Beaman claims police targeted him early in their investigation into the former Illinois State University student’s death. Beaman is 45 and now lives in Rockford.

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