Published: March 27, 2008 06:38 pm            

Indiana Supreme Court to hear arguments in Camm appeal

Defense attorney Katharine "Kitty" Liell confirmed Thursday that the Indiana Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments in the appeal of David Camm for May 22 at 9 a.m.

Liell spoke with The Tribune and Evening News newsgathering partner WLKY NewsChannel 32 and said the state Attorney General's office has until Friday to ask for another date if it so desires.

Each side will receive 30 minutes for oral arguments unless otherwise stated by the court.

Camm's defense team has argued that his murder conviction should be reversed because another man was acknowledged to be involved.

Attorneys for David Camm will also argue that the prosecutor failed to prove a connection between Camm and the other man — Charles Boney — during Camm’s 2006 trial in Warrick County Superior Court.

Jurors in January 2006 convicted Boney on three counts of murder and he is serving a 225-year sentence. A separate jury two months later convicted Camm of killing his family in the garage of their home in the southern Indiana town of Georgetown.

But the brief said a conspiracy charge attempting to link Camm with Boney was dismissed because there was no evidence.

Boney’s involvement creates reasonable doubt as to Camm’s guilt, Camm’s attorneys argue.

Attorney General Steve Carter argued that Camm’s conviction should be upheld in a brief filed earlier this month.

Camm was convicted for the September 2000 murders of his wife, Kimberly, 35, and their children Bradley, 7, and Jill, 5. He is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.

That trial resulted in Camm’s second conviction in the case. The first, in Floyd County in March 2002, was overturned by the Indiana Court of Appeals in August 2004.

Camm’s attorneys appealed his second conviction in October.

— WLKY, Associated Press, Tribune

        

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