GUILTY
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- Category: Police News
- Published on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 19:57
- Written by Steve Bart
Gordon K. Moore, 41, was found guilty of one count of murder Thursday in a bench trial for the brutal killing of his estranged wife, Teresa K. Moore, 38, on January 31, 2011. The trial was in Peoria County Court.
Moore is to be sentenced March 9th. The sentence could range anywhere from 35 to 60 years. No ‘good-time’ credit will be available under court guidelines meaning that he will have to serve 100 percent of any sentence imposed upon him.
Peoria County Circuit Judge Timothy Lucas had disallowed a clinical psychologist from testifying for the defense last week. The testimony would have been to show that Moore’s actions were due to extreme distress caused by his pending divorce. Moore’s attorney did not contest this suppression of evidential testimony because an appeal is planned later. He also plans in his appeal for a consideration of a second degree murder charge that would result in a maximum sentence of twenty years and ‘good-time’ credit.
Moore had been accused of stabbing his estranged wife to death in front of his teenage daughter who had then ran with her 3 year-old brother to a neighbor’s. When police arrived on that fateful morning, Moore allegedly told them that he was the one who killed his wife and that he did not want to live. He had knife wounds near his neck at the time apparently from his attempt to commit suicide.
