Judge considers Camm release

So You know

• Kimberly, 35, Bradley, 7, and Jill Camm, 5, were found murdered in the garage of their Georgetown home on Sept. 28, 2000.
• David Camm was arrested and charged with their murders on Oct. 1, 2000
• David Camm was found guilty of the murders of his family and sentenced to 195 years in prison on March 25, 2002
• The 2002 conviction was overturned by the Indiana Court of Appeals, but Camm was re-charged and another man, Charles Boney, was added to the case as a co-defendant.
• Both Boney and Camm were convicted in separate trials in 2006 and Camm was sentenced to life without parole on March 8, 2006.
• Camm’s second conviction was overturned by the Court of Appeals in 2009. He is awaiting his third trial which is expected to begin in August 2013.

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July 10, 2012

Judge considers Camm release

Location of third murder trial also under advisement; Next hearing is Aug. 13

By GARY POPP gary.popp@newandtribune.com The News and Tribune Tue Jul 10, 2012, 07:46 AM EDT

SPENCER COUNTY — Lawyers representing David Camm entered a request Monday during a hearing in Spencer County Circuit Court to have their client released from jail leading to his August 2013 trial, where the former Indiana State Trooper is slated to face three charges of murder.

Presiding Spencer County Circuit Court Judge Jon Dartt took the defense’s request under advisement, but has not yet issued a decision. If the request is granted, Camm could be released from Vanderburgh County Detention Center while he awaits his next trial.

This will be Camm’s third time on trial for the murders of his wife, Kim, 35, and his two children, Bradley, 7, and Jill, 5, who were killed in the garage of their Georgetown home Sept. 28, 2000, after returning from swim and dance lessons.

Camm was arrested and charged with their murders on Oct. 1, 2000. He was convicted at his previous two trials, in 2002 and 2006, but both verdicts were subsequently overturned.

Special Prosecutor Stan Levco, of Perry County, said Dartt could provide his decision during Camm’s next court appearance Aug. 13.

Levco was appointed special prosector to the case in 2011 after Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson, who led the state’s case against Camm in the 2006 trial, was removed from the case because of his involvement with a deal to write a book about the case.

Dartt on Monday did grant a request made by defense lawyers Richard Kammen and Stacy Uliana, both of Indianapolis, to change the trial venue from Spencer County to a currently undisclosed location.

“[The defense’s] argument was that the publicity in Southern Indiana is pretty extensive and it would be hard to get a jury that didn’t know about it,” Levco said. “And, I agreed with that.”

Where the trial will take place could be determined as soon as the Aug. 13 hearing, Levco said.

“We have a lot of issues to take up [at the hearing]. I would anticipate we would resolve the question of venue, but maybe not,” he said.

Camm’s initial trial was in Floyd County and his second trial was in Warrick County. In August 2010, Dartt ruled that jurors for the third Camm trial will come from a northern Indiana county, outside the Louisville and Evansville TV markets.