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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Ind. Courts - "Convicted rapist’s appeal heard at VU School of Law"
Both NWI newspapers covered the oral argument held Monday by a traveling panel of Indiana Court of Appeals judges at Valpo Law.
Here is the report of Ruth Ann Krause of the Gary Post-Tribune. Some quotes:
Judge Nancy Vaidik, a Portage native and former Porter County prosecutor, presided at the session with Judges Michael P. Barnes and Terry Crone, both of St. Joseph County, in hearing arguments in the appeal of Walter Lee Liddell. * * *Here is Bob Kasarda's story in the NWI Times, along with three photos.The judges heard arguments on whether the trial court mistakenly denied Liddell’s request to exclude a newly discovered witness or delay the trial to give the defense adequate time to investigate and develop a strategy.
Through Liddell’s first two trials that ended in mistrial with deadlocked juries, no one had been able to locate a witness named “Jerry” who had “Angela” tattooed on his neck.
On the Friday before Liddell’s third trial began in April 2010, defense attorney John Cantrell learned from deputy prosecutor John Burke that the man had been identified through an online tattoo identification database but that Burke would not be calling him as a witness.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 29, 2011 09:11 AM
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