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Circuit Judge Milton Wharton cleared the way Thursday for prosecutors to bring Christopher Coleman's girlfriend to Illinois to testify at his murder trial later this month.
The action involving Tara Lintz, who lives in Florida, is a formality for out-of-state witnesses. Coleman's attorneys have not attempted to prevent her testimony.
Officials allege that Coleman strangled his wife, Sheri, and two preteen sons in their home in Columbia, Ill., to be with Lintz. Wharton already ruled to allow the jury to see at least some sexually explicit homemade videos that Coleman and Lintz made.
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In STL today.
 
Coleman's trial had been scheduled to start February 28, but defense attorneys submitted paperwork in court Thursday saying they had new evidence to present. The defense says it received new DNA evidence from the Illinois State Police last week.

The judge set a status hearing for April 15, where the defense is expected to present said evidence. <snipped>

http://www.ksdk.com/rss/article/243481/3/Chris-Coleman-murder-trial-delayed
 
BY NICHOLAS J.C. PISTOR &#8226; npistor@post-dispatch.com > Posted: Friday, March 18, 2011 9:13 am | No Comments Posted

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WATERLOO &#8226; Christopher Coleman will appear in court today as prosecutors and defense attorneys prepare for trial next month.
Judge Milton Wharton will hold a hearing over whether a linguistic expert can testify at trial on April 25.
Coleman, 33, is held without bail in the strangulation deaths of his wife and two sons, who were found dead May 5, 2009.
Coleman's attorneys are seeking to bar testimony from Robert A. Leonard, a forensic linguist and professor at Hofstra University, who linked Coleman's language patterns to threats directed at the family and placed in their mailbox in the months before the killings.
 
Robert A. Leonard, a forensic linguist and professor at Hofstra University, testified at a pre-trial hearing that Coleman's writing patterns, grammar, and contraction usage is consistent with threats directed at his own family and placed in their mailbox in the months before the killings, in addition to messages spray-painted on the walls of his home the day of the murders.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/illinois/article_8c54791c-516a-11e0-83d2-0017a4a78c22.html
 
Defense attorneys for accused murderer Chris Coleman say they're "ready" for trial as they continue fighting testimony about spray painted walls at the murder scene. Court records also show the Reverend Joyce Meyer and her son will give video depositions, Wednesday April 6.

Chris Coleman appeared in a tie for the first time since he was charged with strangling his wife and two kids. He did not wear the orange jumpsuit, but he remained shackled as he listened to the last fight over possible testimony in the coming trial.

http://www.fox2now.com/news/ktvi-colemans-lawyers-say-theyre-ready-trial-20110404,0,2273108.story
 
April 8, 2011
Joyce Meyer gives advance testimony in murder case against her former bodyguard, Chris Coleman

WATERLOO -- Televangelist Joyce Meyer and her ministry's chief executive officer and son, Dan Meyer, appeared in a Monroe County courtroom on Wednesday afternoon and gave a taped deposition in the case against her former bodyguard, Chris Coleman.

The Meyers were asked to testify by Monroe County State's Attorney Kris Reitz, but Joyce Meyer asked that her trial testimony be given by way of a videotaped deposition that may be shown to the jury in Coleman's murder trial. Meyer had a previous scheduled conference on the day Reitz asked her to appear to offer live testimony, said her lawyer, Mike King.

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Read more: http://www.bnd.com/2011/04/07/1661379/joyce-dan-meyer-give-depositions.html#ixzz1J8XXp3sW



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http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic...before-coleman-trial-20110406,0,6072966.story
 
Trial to begin in strangling of Ill. family

April 10, 2011 (COLUMBIA, Ill.) -- Enrico Mirabelli and other relatives of Sheri Coleman remember reacting with numbed silence to the horrific news: Coleman and her two young sons found strangled in their beds at home, sinister graffiti spray-painted on the walls.


Now, nearly two years later, the family is bracing for the trial of Coleman's husband, Christopher, who prosecutors accuse of wiping out his family in a scheme to advance an affair and protect his job with a televangelist whose operation had a no-divorce policy for employees. Also bracing are the family's former neighbors in this southwest Illinois town, where the Coleman house stands vacant and lifeless, aside from a lone red tulip peeking up through the flower bed.

Jury selection begins Monday in the oft-delayed Monroe County case against Coleman, a former Marine accused of a crime that has transfixed much of the St. Louis metropolitan area.

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http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local/illinois&id=8063952&rss=rss-wls-article-8063952
 
Christopher Coleman, whose chains and orange jail jumpsuit were replaced by a fresh dress shirt and tie, sat in a cramped courtroom here Tuesday to watch lawyers begin quizzing men and women who will decide his fate.

What do they know about the murder case against him? How do they feel about the death penalty? Can they bear to see crime scene photographs of dead children?

Coleman quietly locked eyes with some, and took notes as 16 prospective jurors submitted their answers. Six was dismissed for cause, leaving the others in the running for now. More were to come today and, as necessary, through the week.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/...cle_c4d21a5b-a816-5e09-9539-5ba8d2b569ac.html
 
The case could serve as a historic marker, as it may be the last death penalty case in Illinois. Gov. Pat Quinn has signed a bill formally abolishing the death penalty and commuted the state's 15 pending death sentences to life in prison. However, that doesn't cover any prosecution that yields a death sentence before the July 1 effective date of the law.

If Coleman is convicted and sentenced to death, it will fall to Quinn, who has already vowed to commute any death sentence between now and July.<snipped>


Much much more at link:

http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/b41c7414-6e65-11e0-9c9b-001cc4c002e0.html
 
Son's murder charge hits Coleman family hard

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_c5aee432-6f61-5d33-bd01-a1a05cb102af.html

The Rev. Ronald and Connie Coleman are in a position few would understand.
Two years ago, their grandsons and daughter-in-law were killed, and their son was charged with the murders.
"It's hard to even describe what you go through," Ronald Coleman said Friday. He runs Grace Church Ministries, in Chester, alongside his wife. "Everything is on hold. We've lost a lot.
"We loved those kids, we loved Sheri."
 
Christopher Coleman arrived in a Monroe County Sheriff&#8217;s cruiser at 9:10 a.m. The car zipped into the courthouse sallyport. He was gone before jurors left the courthouse after the trial ended for the day by 3:15 p.m.

His mother, Connie Coleman, arrived from Chester in a wheelchair being pushed by his brother, Brad Coleman. They were dropped at the curb by his father, the Rev. Ron Coleman, who parked and then entered the courthouse alone.

Read more: http://www.bnd.com/2011/04/25/1684219/adultery-betrayal-murder-on-trial.html#ixzz1KbFIOLNX

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