People v. Bowman

PRESIDING JUSTICE HOPKINS

delivered the opinion of the court:

Gregory Bowman (defendant) was convicted in 1979 for the murders of two young women. Twenty years later, a newspaper article alleged a previously unknown collaboration between the detective to whom defendant confessed and a cellblock mate of defendant’s during the time of his confession. Defendant filed a postconviction petition asserting that the new information rendered his confession coerced and his constitutional rights violated. After a hearing on defendant’s post-conviction petition, the trial court granted defendant a new…