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While admitting no wrongdoing by Normal police, the town has settled with a man convicted and imprisoned but later cleared of a 1995 homicide.

Alan Beaman accuses former Normal detectives Tim Freesmeyer, Frank Zayas and Dave Warner with conspiring to frame him in the 1993 strangulation death of Jennifer Lockmiller.

Attorneys for Alan Beaman argue the judge handling his civil trial against three Normal police officers may not be partial. Beaman wants a McLean County judge to hear the case.

Alan Beaman has asked the judge who dismissed his civil lawsuit against three former Normal police officers to recuse himself from proceedings leading up to a jury trial on Beaman’s claims that the officers conspired to convict him of a murder he did not commit.

Daisy Contreras / NPR Illinois Originally published on January 15, 2021 7:09 pm In arguments Wednesday before the Illinois Supreme Court, lawyers for Alan Beaman continued their efforts to allow a jury to determine if several Normal police officers acted improperly during a murder investigation that resulted in Beaman serving more than a dozen years in prison before he was exonerated. In 2008, the high court reversed Beaman’s conviction. Since his release, Beaman has pursued civil claims against the Town of Normal and former investigators Tim Freesmeyer, Dave Warner and Frank Zayas, a...