The attorney for convicted murderer Charles D. Boney filed a motion Thursday calling for a new trial.
Defense attorney Patrick Renn’s motion claims one member of the 12-person jury had his mind made up about Boney’s guilt before the trial started earlier this year. A racial slur was used by the juror to describe Boney, WHAS-TV in Louisville reported.
Renn’s attention was drawn to the matter by a “concerned citizen,” a friend of another of the Boney trial jurors.
“The defendant has been denied a constitutionally guaranteed a fair trial,” Renn told the station.
Based on the alleged comments of the juror, Renn believes that person lied on an extensive questionnaire given to jurors, WHAS reported. Many questions dealt with race.
If answers to the questions had signaled a bias, the juror would have been singled out before the trial for further questioning, Renn told the station.
Boney could get a second trial for the murders of Kim Camm and her children, Brad and Jill. The three were killed in their Georgetown home on Sept. 28, 2000.
The husband and father, David Camm, was also convicted of triple murder earlier this month by a jury in Warrick County. Boney and Camm will spend the rest of their lives in a Michigan City prison.
-- Staff reports
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State asks for Henderson to be reinstated to Camm case
Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller announced Thursday his office will appeal the ruling that removed Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson from the David Camm’s third murder trial due to a book deal.
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Court says Henderson can't remain on Camm case
“Concluding that prosecutor’s literary contract created an irreversible, actual conflict of interest with his duty to the people of the state of Indiana, we find that the trial court erred when it denied Camm’s petition,” Judge John G. Baker wrote in his opinion.
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Indiana Court of Appeals will review Camm book deal
The Indiana Court of Appeals has agreed to decide whether a special prosecutor should be appointed to David Camm’s third triple-murder trial.
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Camm murders still grip community after 10 years
Ten years ago today, Kim Camm and her two children Bradley, 7, and Jill, 5, were murdered in their Georgetown home.
Kim’s parents, Janice and Frank Renn, will have a private family gathering in remembrance, their attorney, Nick Stein, said. -
No change in venue: Camm's third trial to be in Warrick or Spencer counties
Special Judge Jonathan Dartt has denied a motion to change venue from Warrick County for David Camm’s third triple-murder trial, but he ordered jurors be selected from another county.
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Supreme Court asked to appoint special judge in Camm case
Attorneys for David Camm have asked the Indiana Supreme Court to appoint a special judge in the case after the presiding judge missed a deadline for ruling on a motion to change venue.
- Camm’s attorneys granted initial request for funding Warrick County Superior Court No. 2 Judge Robert Aylsworth granted a request by David Camm’s attorneys last week for $75,000 from the Floyd County Public Defender’s Office to begin preparation for a third murder trial.
- Camm’s lead attorney withdraws from case David Camm will have new lead counsel as his case moves toward a third trial.
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Indiana Supreme Court asked to reconsider David Camm decision
Camm has twice been convicted of murdering his wife, Kimberly, 35, and children, Bradley, 7, and Jill, 5
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What's next for David Camm?
After two trials and two convictions overturned on appeals
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