Rle7
09-30-2007, 12:06 PM
A death-penalty specialist who once represented Unabomber Ted Kaczynski has joined lawyers already defending convicted triple-murderer Joseph E. Duncan in his January 2008 federal trial.
Judy Clarke, former director of the Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington and Idaho, helped keep Kaczynski, Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph and Susan Smith, convicted of killing her two children in a South Carolina lake, off death row.
Clarke filed paperwork in U.S. District Court in Idaho on Friday asking that all documents in Duncan's case be sent to her. She left her post at the Spokane-based nonprofit federal defender organization in 2002 after accepting a newly created position as a roving federal defender specializing in death penalty cases.
Duncan has already pleaded guilty in Idaho state court to killing members of the Groene family at their Coeur d'Alene area home in May 2005, so that he could kidnap two children for sex. Brenda Groene; her fiancé, Mark McKenzie, and her 13-year-old son, Slade Groene, were fatally bludgeoned with a hammer.
In his upcoming federal death-penalty case, Duncan is accused of kidnapping Brenda Groene's two youngest children and later killing one of them. Prosecutors say Dylan Groene, 9, was killed at a remote Montana campsite. Shasta Groene, 8, was rescued weeks later and was the attack's lone survivor.
The federal case concentrates on events that occurred in Montana after Shasta and Dylan Groene were abducted.
Clarke didn't immediately return a phone message left at her office in California today. Roger Peven, who succeeded Clark, also didn't return phone calls.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003912856_webduncan29.html
It's going to take a miracle worker to keep JED from the needle. Kaczynski and Smith were mentally ill when they committed their murders. JED is just pure evil.
Judy Clarke, former director of the Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington and Idaho, helped keep Kaczynski, Olympics bomber Eric Rudolph and Susan Smith, convicted of killing her two children in a South Carolina lake, off death row.
Clarke filed paperwork in U.S. District Court in Idaho on Friday asking that all documents in Duncan's case be sent to her. She left her post at the Spokane-based nonprofit federal defender organization in 2002 after accepting a newly created position as a roving federal defender specializing in death penalty cases.
Duncan has already pleaded guilty in Idaho state court to killing members of the Groene family at their Coeur d'Alene area home in May 2005, so that he could kidnap two children for sex. Brenda Groene; her fiancé, Mark McKenzie, and her 13-year-old son, Slade Groene, were fatally bludgeoned with a hammer.
In his upcoming federal death-penalty case, Duncan is accused of kidnapping Brenda Groene's two youngest children and later killing one of them. Prosecutors say Dylan Groene, 9, was killed at a remote Montana campsite. Shasta Groene, 8, was rescued weeks later and was the attack's lone survivor.
The federal case concentrates on events that occurred in Montana after Shasta and Dylan Groene were abducted.
Clarke didn't immediately return a phone message left at her office in California today. Roger Peven, who succeeded Clark, also didn't return phone calls.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003912856_webduncan29.html
It's going to take a miracle worker to keep JED from the needle. Kaczynski and Smith were mentally ill when they committed their murders. JED is just pure evil.