Monday, November 01, 2010
Courts Juggling Schedules For Murder Trial
KENTUCKY...
Judges in two courts and a batch of attorneys are negotiating schedules to set a resentencing and new trial stemming from a 1991 killing in central Kentucky.
Scheduling issues, appeals and changes in attorneys have delayed setting dates for Michael St. Clair to return to court for the 1991 killing of Bardstown resident Frank Brady.
St. Clair won a new trial on capital kidnapping charges in Hardin County, where Brady disappeared from in 1991. He also won a new sentencing on capital murder charges on appeal in Bullitt County, where prosecutors say Brady was killed. Both decisions overturned death sentences.
The Elizabethtown News-Enterprise reports that during a hearing in Shepherdsville on Wednesday, special Judge Ken Conliffe set a Dec. 8 hearing to discuss scheduling.
St. Clair, who has gone through multiple attorneys, also is serving multiple life sentences, without parole, for murders convictions in Oklahoma.
Judges in two courts and a batch of attorneys are negotiating schedules to set a resentencing and new trial stemming from a 1991 killing in central Kentucky.
Scheduling issues, appeals and changes in attorneys have delayed setting dates for Michael St. Clair to return to court for the 1991 killing of Bardstown resident Frank Brady.
St. Clair won a new trial on capital kidnapping charges in Hardin County, where Brady disappeared from in 1991. He also won a new sentencing on capital murder charges on appeal in Bullitt County, where prosecutors say Brady was killed. Both decisions overturned death sentences.
The Elizabethtown News-Enterprise reports that during a hearing in Shepherdsville on Wednesday, special Judge Ken Conliffe set a Dec. 8 hearing to discuss scheduling.
St. Clair, who has gone through multiple attorneys, also is serving multiple life sentences, without parole, for murders convictions in Oklahoma.
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