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Thursday, May 08, 2008
Ind. Decisions - Still more on: Court of Appeals reverses murder convictions under Indiana’s Criminal Rule 4(C)
Updating this ILB entry from April 13th on the COA decision in the case of Robert Jeffrey Pelley v. State of Indiana, the South Bend Tribune reports today:
The office of Attorney General Steve Carter has asked the Indiana Supreme Court review Jeffrey Pelley’s quadruple murder case.An Indiana Court of Appeals recently overturned Pelley’s four murder convictions on the grounds that prosecutors took too long to bring Pelley to trial.
A delay in the case was the result of a legal battle between prosecutors and the Family and Children’s Center over access to records of the Pelley family before four members of that family were shot to death in their Lakeville home.
A petition filed Wednesday by the attorney general argues that prosecutors had no control over the delay, and that it should therefore not be interpreted as a violation of Criminal Rule 4 (C), which guarantees every defendant a speedy trial.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on May 8, 2008 11:07 AM
Posted to Ind. App.Ct. Decisions