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The articles on the Phoenix Buddhist Temple murders
have been moved to this
URL
because your dyslexic web master spelled
Temple as Tempe.
It's the Phoenix Temple Murders, not the
Tempe Temple Murders.
But I left the original post here so the web crawlers would still be right about this link.
The cops used a coerced confession to get his first conviction. They shouldn't be allowed to try him a 2nd time 20 years later. Hell, the cops also coerced confessions from the 4 Tucson kids. Those 4 kids where released when they discovered, by accident that the Tucson kids didn't commit the murders. Sure Johnathan Doody is probably guilty, but the government should release him because it didn't give him a fair trail. Doody appears in court in temple murders by Michael Kiefer - Jan. 24, 2012 09:39 PM The Republic | azcentral.com Johnathan Doody was 17 when he was arrested in the August 1991 murders of six monks and three others at a Buddhist temple in the West Valley farming community of Waddell. On Tuesday, Doody, now 37, was back in Maricopa County Superior Court as prosecutors prepare to try him again for the killings that came to be known as the temple murders. He was a sullen teenager at his first trial, convicted largely on the strength of a confession extracted by sheriff's investigators, and the trial judge imposed nine consecutive life sentences. But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out the conviction, first in 2010, ruling that the confession had been coerced, and again in 2011 after the state asked the court to reconsider. Last October, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case, which sent it back to Maricopa County Superior Court for retrial. So a lanky, nearly middle-aged Doody sat placidly in court Tuesday, sporting a modern brush-cut hairstyle and eyeglasses with large black frames. Tuesday's hearing dealt only with preliminary motions. Doody's defense attorneys, Maria Schaffer and Rick Miller, filed motions to modify conditions of release and to bar media cameras from the courtroom. The camera question will be heard Feb. 7. The release conditions will be discussed on Feb. 14. Prosecutors will retry the case without Doody's confession. The victims' bodies were found Aug. 10, 1991, face down in a circle, and each -- six men, two youths and one elderly woman -- had been shot in the head several times, execution style. At first, sheriff's investigators pursued four men from Tucson, then stumbled upon Doody and Alessandro Garcia. Garcia, who had committed a murder at a campground in Tonto National Forest, pleaded guilty and testified against Doody.
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