Judge Robert H. Adcock, 62, who was on the bench for 11 years in the 13th Judicial Circuit Court in Grundy County, died Thursday, Feb. 1, at the University of Chicago Hospitals after a 2-year battle with cancer. Judge Adcock presided over two murder trials, one of which ended in a jury handing down the death sentence for Edward A. Moore Jr., a Downers Grove man convicted of raping and murdering a woman in Morris. "It was a horrible case, but I think he felt the system worked in that instance," said his daughter Meghan Maine, an Illinois assistant attorney general. Judge Adcock was born in St. Louis and moved to the Chicago area as a teen. He graduated from the law school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1963 before joining a law firm in Morris. In 1989 he was named an associate Circuit Court judge and was elected in 1992. The longtime Morris resident was re-elected in 1998. Survivors also include his wife of 30 years, Penny; another daughter, Allison McDowell; and a sister, Eleanor Blaha. Mass will be said at 11 a.m. Monday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 516 E. Jackson St., Morris.
Judge Robert H. Adcock, 62, who was on the bench for 11 years in the 13th Judicial Circuit Court in Grundy County, died Thursday, Feb. 1, at the University of Chicago Hospitals after a 2-year battle with cancer. Judge Adcock presided over two murder trials, one of which ended in a jury handing down the death sentence for Edward A. Moore Jr., a Downers Grove man convicted of raping and murdering a woman in Morris. "It was a horrible case, but I think he felt the system worked in that instance," said his daughter Meghan Maine, an Illinois assistant attorney general. Judge Adcock was born in St. Louis and moved to the Chicago area as a teen. He graduated from the law school at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1963 before joining a law firm in Morris. In 1989 he was named an associate Circuit Court judge and was elected in 1992. The longtime Morris resident was re-elected in 1998. Survivors also include his wife of 30 years, Penny; another daughter, Allison McDowell; and a sister, Eleanor Blaha. Mass will be said at 11 a.m. Monday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 516 E. Jackson St., Morris.
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