Convicted ex-trooper Camm seeks third murder trial

October 04, 2006 01:46 pm

— BOONVILLE — Attorneys for a former state trooper convicted of murdering his wife and two children want a judge to order a third trial on the charges.
A hearing has been scheduled for Oct. 16 in Warrick Superior Court on a motion by David Camm’s lawyers arguing that Judge Robert Aylsworth should not have allowed prosecutors to argue that Camm killed his family to hide that he molested his 5-year-old daughter.
The motion, filed in May, also cites statements the jury foreman made at a news conference that the molestation comments helped convince him of Camm’s guilt. Camm, who has maintained his innocence in the killings, was never charged with child molesting.
Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson has said the trial was conducted properly and he is confident the verdict will not be overturned.
Jurors convicted Camm, 42, of murdering his wife, Kimberly, 35, and their two children in the garage of their home in Georgetown in September 2000.
A different jury convicted him of the murders in 2002. He was serving a 195-year prison sentence when the Indiana Court of Appeals overturned the verdict in August 2004, ruling that testimony about Camm’s extramarital affairs had unfairly biased jurors.
After his second trial that lasted eight weeks, Camm was sentenced in March to life in prison.
A separate jury in January convicted a second man, Charles Boney, 36, in the triple slaying. Camm’s attorneys have argued that Boney, not Camm, committed the murders.

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