Crime & Safety
Trial of Hyungseok Koh Expected to Start Sept. 10
Date to be set July 6, prosecutors say.
The trial against a 58-year-old Northbrook man accused of stabbing his son to death in 2009 is expected to begin Sept. 10, an assistant state's attorney said Friday.
A date for the trial of Hyungseok Koh was to be set during a status hearing in Skokie District Two Court Friday, Assistant State's Attorney Michelle Gemskie said. That date was continued until 9:30 a.m. July 6.
Koh has been in Cook County Jail since police arrested him on April 16, 2009 when , Paul Koh, then 22. Attorneys for the state allege that Koh stabbed Paul to death in the doorway of the family’s Northbrook home.
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Since then, Koh's attorneys have challenged the state's attorney's case, filing motions to, among other things,. His attorneys also filed a against the Northbrook Police Department in April 2011, saying that police violated his constitutional rights during his arrest and subsequent interrogation.
Bond is still set for Koh at $5 million, according to his record at Cook County Jail.
