IL - Olamide Adeyooye, 21, Normal, 13 Oct 2005

[PrayersForMaura]

ISU admits sending letter to murder suspect

Maurice Wallace, the 27-year-old suspect in the murder of ISU student Olamide Adeyooye, was forbidden from ISU's campus two months before he was charged with Adeyooye's murder.

However, Wallace was not the first to receive this type of expulsion from ISU's campus.

A persona-non-grata letter is a formal declaration from ISU's Office of Student Affairs to a particular individual forbidding them to set foot on ISU's campus or any specific area of campus in which they are unwanted.

After receipt of the letter, any person found on campus will be arrested for trespassing by ISU police.

Wallace received two of these letters since 2001.

According to Helen Mamarchev, Vice President of Student Affairs, Wallace received the letters for frequently harassing students.

More: http://www.dailyvidette.com/media/paper420/news/2005/12/12/News/Isu-Admits.Sending.Letter.To.Murder.Suspect-1127194.shtml

 

[PrayersForMaura]

Adeyooye family may need to file civil suit

After a postponed arraignment on Friday, Dec. 9, a spokesperson for the family of murdered ISU student Olamide Adeyooye announced that a civil suit is being considered against suspect Maurice Wallace of Normal and anyone else possibly responsible for Adeyooye's death.

Wallace, a 27 year-old Normal resident is charged with three counts of first degree murder, two counts of concealing a homicide and one count of auto theft regarding the death of Adeyooye.

Wallace's arraignment was postponed because he has not yet been indicted in the case.

Asst. Public Defender Tracy Smith told Judge Scott Drazewski on Friday that an indictment will not be waived and wishes to proceed to a grand jury.

The case will now go before a grand jury who will decide if there is enough evidence to proceed to try Wallace.

Asst. State's Attorney Kim Campbell said a postponement of an arraignment is not uncommon.

Adeyooye's family attorney Benjamin Obi Nwoye told reporters that the family is unhappy with the speed of the case and will launch its own civil suit against Wallace and any other person or persons involved if needed.

More: http://www.dailyvidette.com/media/paper420/news/2005/12/12/News/Adeyooye.Family.May.Need.To.File.Civil.Suit-1127191.shtml

 

[Bobbisangel]

A 27-year-old man was charged Thursday in the death of an Illinois State University student whose badly burned body was found in the charred rubble of a Mississippi chicken house.

McLean County State's Attorney Bill Yoder said Maurice Wallace faces three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of concealing a homicide and one count of theft of a motor vehicle in connection with the death of 21-year-old Olamide Adeyooye. A student from suburban Chicago, Adeyooye was last seen Oct. 13 at a video store near her off-campus apartment in the city of Normal.

Wallace is due in court Friday for a bond hearing where prosecutors said they will seek to have him held on $2 million bond.

At a news conference to announce the charges, Yoder declined to answer questions about the case, deferring to Friday's hearing when the factual basis for the charges will be read in court.

Yoder declined to comment on where Adeyooye was killed, and during the news conference he placed the time of death at Oct. 13-15. But charging documents say she was killed in her apartment on Oct. 13, the day she was last seen alive.

One of the concealment charges alleges Wallace tried to clean blood from the floor of her apartment, then put her body in her car and left the area.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-051201missingstudent,1,887876.story?coll=chi-news-hed

Where are they getting 3 counts of first degree murder? There was only 1 murder.

All of us who have had a family member murdered want the whole process to happen right away but that isn't the way the judicial system works. It seems to take forever. Filing a civil suit won't speed the process and could endanger the criminal trial if the civil suit takes place before the criminal trial. It sounds like LE has the right guy and it looks like there is plenty of evidence. The family, even though it is so difficult, will be smart to just be patient and allow the whole process to unfold. In the end they will get justice for their daughter.

 

[mysteriew]

A Normal man charged in the death of Illinois State University student Olamide Adeyooye pleaded innocent Friday to charges of murder, concealment of a homicidal death and unlawful possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
Maurice Wallace, 27, was arraigned Friday in McLean County Circuit Court. Judge Scott Drazewski told Wallace he could spend the rest of his life in prison if he's convicted of murder and the crime is deemed to be brutal and heinous.
http://www.pantagraph.com/stories/121705/new_2005121736.shtml

 

[mysteriew]

Funeral services are set for an Illinois State University student whose badly burned body was found more than two months ago in the rubble of a Mississippi chicken house, authorities said Thursday.

The remains of 21-year-old Olamide Adeyooye were released Wednesday to a suburban Chicago funeral home that is handling arrangements, McLean County Coroner Beth Kimmerling said.

A funeral mass for Adeyooye, a native of Nigeria who moved to Berkeley in suburban Chicago when she was 8, will be at 10 a.m. on Dec. 31 at St. Domitilla Church in Hillside, according to Hennessy-Bruno Funeral Home in Oakbrook Terrace, which is handling arrangements. Visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Dec. 30 at the church.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...tudent,1,3968071.story?coll=chi-newslocal-hed

 

[mysteriew]

When Maurice Wallace faces a jury in the murder of Illinois State University student Olamide Adeyooye, his defense lawyers may face prosecutors from Springfield in addition to those from McLean County.

McLean County State's Attorney William Yoder has asked the state appellate prosecutor's office to assist with the case against Wallace, 27, of Normal, The Pantagraph has learned.

Special prosecutor Ed Parkinson confirmed Tuesday that he has been asked to help with the McLean County case.

"Yoder has asked our assistance. When they go to trial, they would like our office and the attorney general's office, perhaps, to be involved," said Parkinson.

Parkinson is part of the state's prosecution team preparing for the Maurice LaGrone Jr. triple-murder trial set to begin Feb. 21 in McLean County. LaGrone and former girlfriend Amanda Hamm of Clinton are accused of drowning Hamm's three young children in Clinton Lake in September 2003.
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2005/12/28/news/102136.txt

 

[petra]

http://www.wandtv.com/dsp_story.cfm?storyid=18650

REST IN PEACE SWEET OLAMIDE

PRAYERS FOR THE FAMILY

 

[mysteriew]

A man charged with killing an Illinois State Universtiy student demanded a speedy trial Friday during a combative court appearance where he argued with his court-appointed attorney and the judge.

Maurice Wallace spit on the floor as he entered the McLean County courtroom and told the judge several times that he did not want to be represented by his court-appointed public defender.

Prosecutors set a Feb. 6 trial on one of three cases pending against the 27-year-old Wallace.
http://www.nbc5.com/news/5889024/detail.html

 

[mysteriew]

Wallace just got sentenced 3 mos. in jail for contempt of court. I am starting a thread in Trials.
http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?p=947965#post947965

 

[mysteriew]

Murder suspect Maurice Wallace was ejected from a courtroom three times, interrupted and cursed at the judge and was sentenced to three months in jail for contempt Friday afternoon.

Wallace, 27, who is charged with the murder of Illinois State University student Olamide Adeyooye, repeatedly interrupted Judge Scott Drazewski, refused to be quiet and at one point yelled an obscenity at the judge.

Adeyooye, a 21-year-old ISU student who disappeared from her apartment Oct. 13, was found dead Oct. 21 in a burned-down chicken house in rural Mississippi.

Before the hearing, one of Wallace's attorneys, public defender Brian McEldowney, requested a court-appointed doctor to examine Wallace's mental fitness to stand trial. He said that request was against Wallace's wishes.

The judge ordered a fitness examination and Wallace was scheduled for a hearing March 3 on his ability to stand trial. The hearing will be used to decide if he understands the nature of the proceedings and can help in his defense.

Drazewski noted Wallace's objection and said Wallace had indicated he intends to represent himself.
http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2006/01/21/news/104344.txt

 

[Bobbisangel]

I hope he isn't found incompetent to stand trial and ends up in some mental institution somewhere only to be let go in a year or two. I wonder if he is acting out so that the court will order a psy eval and he is just acting like he doesn't want one. He is either a nut case or crafty as all get out. He should get the death penalty for what he did to that poor girl.

 

[Beyond Belief]

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (AP) -- A man pleaded guilty Friday to killing a college student whose disappearance prompted a nationwide search last year before her body was found in a burned-out Mississippi chicken house.

Maurice Wallace, whose courtroom appearances have been marked with bizarre behavior, pleaded guilty to all counts against him in the slaying of Olamide Adeyooye and in an escape attempt in which prosecutors say he tried to kill a jail guard.

When the judge asked him whether he understood that his plea would keep him behind bars for life, Wallace replied, "Yeah, can't wait."

His attorney noted that the plea agreement was not a product of negotiations but "an embodiment of our client's wishes." Wallace, 28, was unwilling to have any of the charges against him dropped and agreed that the murder was brutal and heinous.

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"In fact, I insist," Wallace declared.

Wallace lived on the same block as Adeyooye, a 21-year-old Illinois State University student and a native of Nigeria who moved to suburban Chicago when she was 8.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MISSING_STUDENT?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US

 

[Bobbisangel]

I'm shocked by this paragraph..........



His attorney noted that the plea agreement was not a product of negotiations but "an embodiment of our client's wishes." Wallace, 28, was unwilling to have any of the charges against him dropped and agreed that the murder was brutal and heinous.




"Wallace, 28, was UNWILLING to have any of the charges against him dropped...."


What do they mean by that? What...LE wanted to drop some of the charges?
I tell you, there is something so wrong with our justice system.