(Steve) Groene wants a national one-strike law for violent sex offenders.  And he is getting support.  In less than a week Groene's Facebook page for his son's Dylan and Slade has tripled in followers.  Groene's boys were two of Duncan's five murder victims.  His daughter Shasta was tortured but survived.  Groene believes a one-strike law may have saved his family.  “Who's to say that if this hadn't been done to my boys that one of them might not have been president some day and been the best president this nation ever had,” said Groene/KREM. More here. (SR file photo: Betsy Russell)

Question: Should there be a national one-strike law for violent sexual offenders?

Item: California murder trial for Joseph Duncan delayed one year/John Asbury, Riverside Press Enterpris

More Info: In court last week, Duncan, who is representing himself, told the court he would not be ready to go to trial by November, if at all. He said he still needed thousands of pages of evidence from the district attorney’s office that have not been turned over. Riverside County Superior Court Judge David Downing said he wanted the case to go to trial no later than September 2011. He ordered prosecutors to have the evidence given to Duncan by January or February.

Question: Will Joseph Duncan ever be put to death for his sex crimes against children and the murder of Shasta Groene’s family?

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Joseph Duncan, whose crimes against a North Idaho family in 2005 shocked the state, should stand trial for a 1997 child abduction and murder in California, a judge there has ruled. Duncan, who faces a possible fourth death sentence, is again asking to act as his own attorney. You can read the full story here at spokesman.com/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise.

Question: On a scale of 1 to 10, how interested are you now in stories about child molester/murderer Joseph Duncan (with 1 being not interested at all)?

Joseph Duncan, the notorious serial killer and child molester whose attack on a Coeur d’Alene family shocked the state, has been extradited to California, where he faces another possible death sentence for the 1997 kidnap and murder of 10-year-old Anthony Martinez. Earlier, Duncan received three death sentences in federal court in Boise for the kidnap, torture and murder of 9-year-old Dylan Groene of Coeur d’Alene, and multiple life sentences for the murders of Dylan’s mother, mother’s fiance and 13-year-old brother, and for the kidnap and molesting of his then-8-year-old sister Shasta, the only one to survive Duncan’s 2005 attack on the family/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise. More here.

Question: Do you think the prosecutor in California is trying to gain the notoriety of prosecuting Duncan, who already is on Death Row? Or is he trying to serve justice?