Published: March 17, 2006 11:25 pm            

Boney asks for new trial

His attorney claims juror had made up mind beforehand

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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