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A man charged with a Lexington County murder 10 years ago has sat in jail ever since.
Lawyers and legal experts can't recall another case in South Carolina and possibly the nation in which a murder defendant has remained behind bars that long without a trial.
Calen John Radwill, 27, should stand trial in November, said Trey Gowdy, a Spartanburg County prosecutor assigned the case in February when the Lexington County prosecutor's office said it had a conflict of interest.
Radwill was 17 in June 1995 when authorities say he kidnapped 15-year-old Brandon Vinson from a grocery store where Vinson worked and stabbed him about 70 times. Brandon's body was found several days later in an abandoned chicken coop near Gilbert.
Radwill has been in jail ever since.
``My son for 10 years has maintained his innocence,''
Joseph Savitz, the lead lawyer in the South Carolina Office of Appellate Defense said he has never heard of a case taking this long to go to trial with the defendant behind bars.
The near decade-long delay in Radwill's case may also have set a national record, according to the National Center for State Courts in Virginia and the Pretrial Services Resource Center in Washington, D.C., a nonprofit information clearinghouse.
http://www.wbt.com/news/detail_wbt.cfm?article_id=21519
Lawyers and legal experts can't recall another case in South Carolina and possibly the nation in which a murder defendant has remained behind bars that long without a trial.
Calen John Radwill, 27, should stand trial in November, said Trey Gowdy, a Spartanburg County prosecutor assigned the case in February when the Lexington County prosecutor's office said it had a conflict of interest.
Radwill was 17 in June 1995 when authorities say he kidnapped 15-year-old Brandon Vinson from a grocery store where Vinson worked and stabbed him about 70 times. Brandon's body was found several days later in an abandoned chicken coop near Gilbert.
Radwill has been in jail ever since.
``My son for 10 years has maintained his innocence,''
Joseph Savitz, the lead lawyer in the South Carolina Office of Appellate Defense said he has never heard of a case taking this long to go to trial with the defendant behind bars.
The near decade-long delay in Radwill's case may also have set a national record, according to the National Center for State Courts in Virginia and the Pretrial Services Resource Center in Washington, D.C., a nonprofit information clearinghouse.
http://www.wbt.com/news/detail_wbt.cfm?article_id=21519