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Thursday, January 27, 2005

Ind. Decisions - More on potential Camm retrial

"$20,000 bond set for Camm in murder case" is the headline to this story today in the Louisville Courier Journal. Some quotes from the story by Ben Z. Hershberg:

BOONVILLE, Ind. -- Former Indiana state trooper David Camm -- facing a retrial on charges of murdering his wife and two children -- may be released from jail on a $20,000 cash bond, a judge ruled yesterday.

Katharine Liell, one of Camm's lawyers, said the bond should be posted and arrangements made for his release from the Floyd County Jail within a couple of days. * * *

Camm was convicted in March 2002 of shooting his wife Kimberly, 36, and their two children -- Bradley, 7, and Jill, 5 -- in the garage of their Georgetown-area home.

But the Indiana Court of Appeals overturned the conviction last August on grounds that testimony in his trial from a dozen women who said he had affairs with or propositioned them unfairly biased the jury.

Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson refiled the murder charges in November, and the case was moved to Warrick County Superior Court in Boonville because of the intense publicity surrounding the first trial. * * *

In her arguments for Camm's release, Liell said that the case against him was weak and that Henderson was attempting to reuse evidence discredited in the first trial. She said the Court of Appeals decision makes it clear the evidence against Camm "is far from overwhelming."

She presented three witnesses who testified yesterday -- as they did in Camm's first trial -- that they played with or observed Camm in a pick-up basketball game at a Georgetown church at the time investigators determined his family was murdered on the night of Sept. 28, 2000.

Here is the Court of Appeals decision: David Camm v. State of Indiana (8/10/04 IndCtApp).

Posted by Marcia Oddi on January 27, 2005 10:26 AM
Posted to Indiana Courts