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• Duncan alters course on sentence appeal

  May 19, 2012 in Idaho on Page A1 BOISE – Notorious murderer Joseph Duncan has changed his mind about waiving his right to appeal, saying he owes it to his mother to try getting off death row for … 14

• Duncan’s competence at sentencing to be reconsidered

  March 29, 2012 in City, Idaho on Page A1 Condemned serial killer Joseph E. Duncan is getting another day in court. Duncan, on death row for the torture and slaying of a North Idaho boy he abducted in 2005 … 2

• Duncan sentence faces test

  July 12, 2011 in Idaho on Page A5 BOISE – The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered convicted killer Joseph Duncan back into court in Idaho, saying a federal judge should have ordered a competency hearing … 1

• 9th Circuit orders Duncan back into court in Idaho

  July 11, 2011 in News, Idaho The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has ordered convicted child-killer Joseph Duncan back into court in Idaho, saying a federal judge should have ordered a competency hearing before allowing … 19

• Huckleberries: Strangers reward woman’s effort to turn life around

  April 10, 2011 in City on Page B3 Kendra Martinez has kept herself out of trouble since the days of yore when she was the object of a tug-of-war between the Kootenai County prosecutor and the public defender. …

• Joseph Duncan given two more life sentences

  April 5, 2011 in News, City Convicted serial killer Joseph Duncan received two more life sentences today for the 1997 murder of Anthony Martinez in southern California. 7

• Joseph Duncan guilty plea brings 10th life sentence

  March 15, 2011 in City, Idaho A convicted mass-murderer pleaded guilty today to the 1997 murder and torture of 10-year-old Anthony Martinez in exchange for life in prison without parole. 10

• Duncan lawyers offer to settle California case

  February 23, 2011 in City on Page A6 Defense attorneys for the man accused of killing a 10-year-old Beaumont, Calif., boy in 1997 have offered to settle the case with prosecutors. During a hearing Tuesday morning in an …

• Duncan may offer plea deal in California case

  February 22, 2011 in News, Region Defense attorneys for the man accused of killing a 10-year-old Beaumont boy in 1997 have offered to settle the case with prosecutors. 10

• Duncan requests attorney ahead of California trial

  October 5, 2010 in City on Page A6 Convicted killer Joseph Edward Duncan, already condemned to die for a murderous North Idaho rampage in 2005 and about to stand trial in California for an earlier slaying, has reconsidered …

• Duncan murder trial put off again

  September 4, 2010 in City on Page B1 RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A trial still appears to be at least a year away for a convicted killer charged with the 1997 slaying of a 10-year-old Beaumont, Calif., boy. During … 3

• Duncan could face California trial next fall

  December 3, 2009 in Nation/World, Idaho Joseph Duncan could face trial next fall on charges of murdering a Southern California boy in 1997.

• Appeal delays mount for Duncan sentence

  September 27, 2009 in Idaho on Page B1 Thirteen months after Joseph Duncan was handed three death sentences for his abduction and murder of a North Idaho child, his appeal languishes in its earliest stages at the 9th … 1

• California judge says Duncan can act as own attorney

  September 22, 2009 in Nation/World, Idaho Joseph Duncan will be allowed to act as his own attorney in a trial in which he faces the death penalty if convicted of the 1997 slaying of a 10-year-old …

• Jury OKs Duncan trial

  August 29, 2009 in City on Page B1 INDIO, CALIF. – An Indio jury has found Joseph Edward Duncan III competent to stand trial in the 1997 kidnapping and killing of a 10-year-old boy. The jury deliberated for …

• Calif. jury: Duncan competent to stand trial

  August 28, 2009 in Nation/World, Idaho Convicted murderer Joseph Duncan is competent to stand trial in the killing of a 10-year-old Beaumont, Calif., boy, a jury has ruled.

• Doctor: Duncan mentally fit for trial

  August 17, 2009 in Nation/World, Idaho INDIO – In the years leading up to the arrest of Joseph Duncan, he battled with the dichotomy of good and evil and lashed out violently after suffering through life, …

• ‘Pardon the expression, but he’s crazy,’ doctor says of Duncan

  August 12, 2009 in Nation/World, Idaho on Page A6 When a psychiatrist visited Joseph Edward Duncan III at the jail in Indio, Calif., on Sunday, he asked if Duncan thought he was mentally competent to stand trial.

• Jury hears expert’s analysis of Duncan

  August 11, 2009 in Nation/World, Idaho on Page A5 INDIO - Joseph Duncan, charged with the 1997 murder of a Beaumont, Calif., boy, is too delusional and psychotic to make his own decisions and understand his death penalty trial, …

• California jury considers Duncan’s mental competency

  August 10, 2009 in Nation/World, Idaho INDIO, Calif. — A Riverside County jury is considering whether a convicted killer is mentally fit to stand trial for the murder of a 10-year-old boy in 1997.

• In brief: Man dies in rollover crash

  April 12, 2009 in City on Page B1 A 54-year-old Spokane County man died early Saturday in a one-car accident on the Palouse Highway near Sands Road, south of Spokane. The driver, whose identity was not been released, …

• Judge: Duncan should stand trial in Calif. boy’s death

  February 4, 2009 in Nation/World, City, Idaho, Region INDIO, Calif. — A judge has ruled that a man charged with the 1997 kidnapping, murder and torture of a 10-year-old Beaumont boy should stand trial. 1

• Joseph Duncan extradited

  January 24, 2009 in City on Page B1 Joseph Duncan, the killer and child molester who attacked a Coeur d’Alene family, has been extradited to California, where he faces another possible death sentence for the 1997 kidnapping and …

• Duncan extradited to California

  January 23, 2009 in Idaho 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 …

• Duncan moved to Indiana prison

  January 10, 2009 in City on Page B1 Condemned murderer Joseph Duncan has been transferred to the U.S. Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind., that houses the federal death row, but Riverside County, Calif., still is working to bring …

• Duncan moved to Indiana

  January 9, 2009 in Idaho Condemned murderer Joseph Duncan has been transferred to U.S. Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind. that houses the federal Death Row, but Riverside County, Calif. still is working to bring the …

• Site of Wolf Lodge Bay murders demolished

  December 7, 2008 in City on Page B2 The house that stood as a reminder of a terrible tragedy is gone. The Idaho Transportation Department on Saturday destroyed the Wolf Lodge Bay home of Mark McKenzie and Brenda …

• Wolf Lodge Bay murder site razed

  December 7, 2008 in City on Page B3 The house that stood as a reminder of a terrible tragedy is gone. The Idaho Transportation Department on Saturday destroyed the Wolf Lodge Bay home of Mark McKenzie and Brenda …

• In brief: Arrest returns Hall to jail after escape

  November 26, 2008 in City on Page A7 One of Spokane’s most notorious criminals is back in jail. Detectives arrested Eddie Ray Hall about 6 p.m. Tuesday at a convenience store near U.S. Highway 195 and Cheney-Spokane Road, …

• Judge tosses Duncan appeal

  November 25, 2008 in Idaho on Page A6 BOISE – Defense attorneys charged that the FBI plied Joseph Duncan with milkshakes and gifts to manipulate him into not appealing his death sentence, but a federal judge rejected that …

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