Death penalty overturned in Frederick Baer case
Jan 12, 2018
"...The Court of Appeals overturned Baers death penalty sentence on Thursday and remanded the case back to Madison County for resentencing...
In making the ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals cited ineffective legal counsel for failing to object to jury instructions that kept the jury from considering mitigating circumstances and failure to object to instances of prosecutorial misconduct...
Madison County Prosecutor Rodney Cummings said Friday that the case was going to be reversed because of the erroneous jury instruction given by Judge Spencer...
During a 2013 interview with The Herald Bulletin on death row, Baer said he thinks about the case every day and that he deserves to die.
He believes death offers the only release from his constant regret and self-loathing."
http://www.heraldbulletin.com/news/...cle_ba5f63ca-f7b3-11e7-99e3-7387c4897299.html
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US Court Asked to Reinstate Death Sentence in Double Slaying
Feb. 27, 2018
"NDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indiana attorney general's office is asking a federal appeals court to reinstate the death sentence of a man convicted of killing a central Indiana woman and her 4-year-old daughter.
The filing asks the full U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago to review a January decision from a three-judge panel that found Frederick Baer had ineffective legal counsel during his trial. The panel sent the case back to a Madison County court for a new sentencing hearing..."
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...to-reinstate-death-sentence-in-double-slaying
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In the
United States Court of Appeals
For the Seventh Circuit
FREDRICK MICHAEL BAER..
ARGUED FEBRUARY 22, 2017 DECIDED JANUARY 11, 2018
http://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-b...C:15-1933:J:Williams:aut:T:fnOp:N:2089507:S:0
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Fredrick Baer speaks from death row
Published on Apr 27, 2013
[video=youtube;1L4Zry4PmP0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L4Zry4PmP0[/video]
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