Hadiya pendleton murder trial

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The alleged gunman in the fatal shooting of Chicago teen Hadiya Pendleton has been granted a new trial.

Micheail Ward was convicted in 2018 and sentenced to 84 years in prison for the 15-year-old honor student's murder.

His conviction was overturned in 2023 by an Illinois Appellate Court, and a tie vote from the Illinois Supreme Court upheld the ruling Thursday.

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The Illinois Supreme Court, which was evenly-divided with one justice recusing himself an dismissed the appeal of a ruling that had overturned the conviction of Ward, clearing the way for a new trial in Pendleton's murder.

Attorney Stephen L.

Richards represented Ward in the state's high court after the now 30-year-old Ward's conviction was overturned in 2023 when a lower court ruled his confession was obtained improperly by police.

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