VIRGINIA, Ill. (AP) — A former Illinois prosecutor who faces a second murder trial in his wife's 2014 death is expected to be released from jail after a judge reduced his bond Monday and friends posted a portion of it.
Judge Bob Hardwick lowered the $5 million bond for former Adams County assistant state's attorney Curtis Lovelace to $3.5 million. Lovelace has been behind bars since he was charged nearly two years ago with first-degree murder in the suffocation death of his 38-year-old wife, Cory Lovelace, on Valentine's Day 2006.
Friends of Lovelace's, Rich and Libby Herr of Champaign, posted 10 percent of the bond, or $350,000, The Quincy Herald-Whig reported (http://bit.