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"Kennedy posted the $250,000 bond set Tuesday by Judge Thomas Kane, who granted Kennedy a retrial April 21 after being presented with new evidence, including DNA tests that showed that another man's DNA was on the sponge used as a gun silencer and also on the two bodies. Kennedy's DNA was not present in either sample."
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"Prosecutors maintain that despite the new DNA evidence, Kennedy was linked to the scene of the crime by DNA found on a cigarette butt inside a beer can that had been crumpled several hours before the murders. Prosecutors also say that evidence proved that Kennedy's gun and ammunition were used to kill the couple.
Kennedy has said that he loaned his gun to Carpenter and Staskiewicz for their protection.
Carpenter had been kidnapped and raped four months before the killings.
Dicke has said that Charles Stoud and Rebecca Corkins tried to intimidate Carpenter into not testifying at the rape trial, which was set to begin a month after her death.
Stoud is serving a 50-year prison sentence for Carpenter's kidnapping and rape. Corkins was released after 10 years."
http://www.gazette.com/articles/kennedy-55360-carpenter-dna.html
"In 1991, the pair were shot to death in a west-side mobile home they shared. Kennedy lived with them briefly in 1991."
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"April, 4th District Judge Thomas Kane ruled that Kennedy was entitled to a new trial, citing new DNA tests and other evidence.
He also found that Kennedy's lawyer in the original trial had failed to aggressively pursue a defense that two others were responsible for the murders.
Staskiewicz and Carpenter had lived together for about a year after the teenager's mother granted Staskiewicz custody. Carpenter had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a couple just four months before the killings, and speculation at the time was that the two were killed because they planned to testify at the rape trial a month later."
http://www.gazette.com/news/kennedy-54467-dna-case.html
The new trial is scheluled to start September 21.
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"Prosecutors maintain that despite the new DNA evidence, Kennedy was linked to the scene of the crime by DNA found on a cigarette butt inside a beer can that had been crumpled several hours before the murders. Prosecutors also say that evidence proved that Kennedy's gun and ammunition were used to kill the couple.
Kennedy has said that he loaned his gun to Carpenter and Staskiewicz for their protection.
Carpenter had been kidnapped and raped four months before the killings.
Dicke has said that Charles Stoud and Rebecca Corkins tried to intimidate Carpenter into not testifying at the rape trial, which was set to begin a month after her death.
Stoud is serving a 50-year prison sentence for Carpenter's kidnapping and rape. Corkins was released after 10 years."
http://www.gazette.com/articles/kennedy-55360-carpenter-dna.html
"In 1991, the pair were shot to death in a west-side mobile home they shared. Kennedy lived with them briefly in 1991."
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.
"April, 4th District Judge Thomas Kane ruled that Kennedy was entitled to a new trial, citing new DNA tests and other evidence.
He also found that Kennedy's lawyer in the original trial had failed to aggressively pursue a defense that two others were responsible for the murders.
Staskiewicz and Carpenter had lived together for about a year after the teenager's mother granted Staskiewicz custody. Carpenter had been kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a couple just four months before the killings, and speculation at the time was that the two were killed because they planned to testify at the rape trial a month later."
http://www.gazette.com/news/kennedy-54467-dna-case.html
The new trial is scheluled to start September 21.
(what's wrong with this picture?)