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A long-serving justice with Illinois' Third District Appellate Court is retiring this summer. Justice Tom Lytton has been a judge since 1992, all on the 3rd District Appellate Court bench. Supreme Court Justice Robert L. Carter had high praise for Lytton, saying "Every Illinois citizen has benefited from the service of Justice Tom Lytton," adding, "He is a role model for all judges in the state." Supreme Court Justice Carter has announced serving in Lytton's seat for the next two years before an open election for the seat will be Joseph Hettel. Hettel currently is...

PEORIA  — A Peoria man will get a new trial as an appellate court held this week that a prosecutor improperly struck one of the only Black jurors during jury selection. Kendal Bradshaw was on trial for drug possession charges in 2017 and there were two Black men in the jury pool. A Peoria County prosecutor used allotted strikes to take both men out of the jury pool, basing it on the fact that they had contact with police and past convictions.  Only one of the strikes was challenged in Bradshaw's appeal, which held that prosecutors failed to prove the move wasn't due to their race. 

PEORIA — The attempted murder conviction of a Peoria man was thrown out this week after an appellate court panel ruled a judge should have let one of his key witnesses take the stand. Instead, Peoria County Circuit Judge Paul Gilfillan didn't allow the witness to take the stand as the witness initially gave a false name, saying “he did not want to get involved" in the trial of Myrune D. Linwood, who was convicted of shooting another man in August 2017 outside a South Peoria nightclub.  Linwood, 29, was sentenced to 36 years on the charge of attempted murder. After the December 2017�...