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Bond at $5M for ex-prosecutor facing retrial in wife's death

QUINCY, Ill. (AP) - A request for a lower bond from a former Illinois prosecutor facing a second murder trial in his wife's Valentine's Day 2006 death was denied Friday by an Adams County judge.

Curtis Lovelace was declared indigent by Judge Bob Hardwick, who ordered the state to pay for the transcripts from his first first-degree murder trial, which ended in a mistrial.

The (Quincy) Herald-Whig reports (http://bit.ly/1Tsp8YD ) a Champaign couple, Rich and Libby Herr, were set to post 10 percent of a $1 million bond. Lovelace's bond will remain at $5 million.

Defense attorney Jon Loevy told the judge that the Lovelaces "couldn't be more broke." The hearing began with Lovelace's wife, Christine, taking the stand to testify about the family's finances. She said the money raised with an online fundraiser was used to pay experts from the first trial.

The former Adams County assistant state's attorney, University of Illinois football captain and Quincy school board president is accused of suffocating first wife Cory Lovelace in her sleep. Lovelace was arrested in 2014 after Quincy police took a fresh look at a case in which the cause of the woman's death was initially ruled as inconclusive.

Lovelace's second trial is set for late July. The 47-year-old man's next court hearing is set for June 17.

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Information from: The Quincy Herald-Whig, http://www.whig.com

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