Friday, February 17, 2012

Bulletin: David Camm; Indiana; Prosecutor barred from participating in 3d trial because of a book-writing conflict of interest; Courrier-Journal;

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: The David Camm case has had a long, tortuous history of convictions and reversals - and a third trial looms ahead. As a cloud has hung over the prosecutions's blood splatter evidence - which was crucial to his conviction - this Blog will follow future developments.

STORY: "Prosecutor Keith Henderson officially off David Camm murder case: Indiana prosecutor can't work third trial," by reporter Harold J. Adams, published in the Courrier-Journal on February 16, 2012.

GIST: "Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson will no longer handle the David Camm murder case because the Indiana Supreme Court has let stand a lower court’s order removing him.The Court of Appeals ruled in November that a contract Henderson signed to write a book about the case while Camm’s second conviction was under appeal created “an actual conflict of interest with his duties as prosecutor".........The new prosecutor will face a case that been narrowed in potential scope by the reversal of the two earlier convictions.A Floyd County jury found Camm guilty in March 2002 after a trial handled by then-prosecutor Stan Faith. The Court of Appeals unanimously reversed that conviction two years later, finding that testimony from multiple women who admitted to having sexual affairs with Camm “was not reasonably related to ... proof or motive.”

THE ENTIRE STORY CAN BE FOUND AT:

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20120215/NEWS02/302150077/Prosecutor-Keith-Henderson-officially-off-David-Camm-murder-case?odyssey=tab%7Cmostpopular%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by former Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at:

http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith

Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at:

http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html

Harold Levy: Publisher; The Charles Smith Blog; hlevy15@gmail.com;