DEFENSE DIVIDED: DUNCAN’S KIDDY PORN
Sunday, October 30th, 2005
SPOKANE, Wash. — Federal Defender, Roger Peven has said “Thanks, but no thanks” to evidence which would certainly figure prominently, if used at all, in the trial of Joseph Edward Duncan III. Duncan is awaiting trial next year on three counts of murder in an attack on a home in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. The evidence in question is child-porn videotapes involving Duncan’s alleged victims. Legal experts throughout the country are today considering what may very well be the first case of a defense attorney censoring due process. (more…)