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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0178d5ae7b66e0c9b566d72d86306882" style="color:#433030;font-size:14px"><strong>The wife of an Illinois judge has been accused of fatally shooting him inside their home in Edwards County, earlier this week </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8b08cc4c02cf93c48d45c098df987dac" style="color:#433030;font-size:14px"><strong>Circuit Judge Michael J. Valentine, 41, was found dead with gunshot wounds outside their sprawling home in Albion, IL, on Tuesday Nov. 5 </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-796b755a86cafb0de71b76814d095357" style="color:#433030;font-size:14px"><strong>His wife Megan Soo Valentine, 44, was arrested on Tuesday for the death </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e0e112c2c0c7f240d3232e935c8bb54d" style="color:#433030;font-size:14px"><strong>Megan Valentine was charged Thursday with first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm, aggravated discharge of a firearm and aggravated domestic battery </strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong> Chicago Circuit Judge Michael J. Valentine, who was found dead outside his County Road 600 home</strong></p>



<p>The wife of a judge in Southern Illinois has been accused of fatally shooting him inside their home earlier this week.<br>Megan Soo Valentine, 44, was arrested on Tuesday for the death of Circuit Judge Michael J. Valentine, who was found dead outside their County Road 600 home in Albion, about 270 miles south of Chicago, according to an <a href="https://isp.illinois.gov/Media/CompletePressRelease/2052?fbclid=IwY2xjawGa7gtleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHUE3cqRp2NaiCSxc2CdHMvrp_NyvfsxWsJ2GlcsCRCD9bKJ4U-dCUk8Pvw_aem__4c0oYxJkkrTO4CvR08t5Q" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Illinois State Police</a> statement. <br>She was taken into custody after Edwards County Sheriff’s deputies found Michael Valentine, 41, dead with gunshot wounds outside their home in Albion, state police said. <br>Charges were filed in connection to the judge&#8217;s death on Thursday, against Megan Valentine.<br>The Sheriff’s Office asked the state police to lead the investigation into Valentine’s death. Charges were filed against his wife on Thursday, state police said.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size"><strong>Megan Soo Valentine, [photo], of Albion, IL, was arrested on Tuesday for the death of her husband, Judge Michael J. Valentine, after his body was found outside their home. She&#8217;s charged with first-degree murder and aggravated domestic battery </strong></p>



<p>The widow has been charged with counts of first-degree murder, aggravated battery with a firearm, aggravated discharge of a firearm and aggravated domestic battery.<br>Michael Valentine, a former Edwards County state attorney, was first elected circuit court judge in 2016. <br>&#8216;On behalf of all of the judges of the Second Judicial Circuit, we are shocked and deeply saddened by the tragic passing of our colleague and friend, Edwards County Resident Judge Michael J. Valentine,&#8217; Second Judicial Circuit Chief Judge Melissa Morgan said, according to <a href="https://www.wsiltv.com/news/crime/murder-charges-filed-after-judge-shot-and-killed-in-southern-illinois/article_24bfc806-412e-5ed8-a0c9-eb1036f7d78e.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">WSIL-TV</a>. <br></p>

Megan Soo Valentine charged in death of Judge Michael Valentine; Illinois judge found dead at their sprawling Chicago mansion was shot ‘by his spouse’ – police
