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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.

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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.

$5 million bond in West Valley temple retrial

Hell I think Johnathan Doody should be just release period. He has spend 20 years in prison because the police violated his constitutional rights by forcing a confession out of him. If you asked me that violated his right to a speedy trial and he should be released even if he is guilty.

Something has to be done to send a message to the police that it is WRONG to railroad people, even guilty people.

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$5 million bond in West Valley temple retrial

Judge points to brutality of '91 killings

by Michael Kiefer - Feb. 14, 2012 09:59 PM

The Republic | azcentral.com

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge set a $5 million bond for temple-murders suspect Johnathan Doody, who was granted a new trial by a federal appeals court because Maricopa County sheriff's investigators forced a confession out of him 21 years ago.

Doody, 37, was convicted in 1994 of murdering nine people at a Buddhist temple in the far West Valley in August 1991.

Doody's attorneys asked the court Tuesday to release Doody to the supervision of his mother, who has come from out of state and rented an apartment. The attorneys hoped that Doody would be able to stay in the apartment while wearing an ankle monitor to track his location.

But Deputy County Attorney Jason Kalish argued that Doody was a flight risk and could possibly flee to his native Thailand. Kalish said that the supposed family and community ties cited by Doody's lawyers "exist on paper and not in reality."

"He has done 20 years for his first conviction for this crime," Kalish said. "He knows what it's like."

Kalish asked Judge Joseph Kreamer to set bond at $9 million to lessen the chance that Doody would be released from custody.

Kreamer noted the seriousness of the crimes and set bond at $5 million.

As they left the courtroom, Doody's mother and adoptive father declined to comment on whether they would be able to make the bond.

Police say Doody was 17 when he and a friend from his high-school ROTC program robbed the resident monks of the Wat Promkunaram temple near Waddell. The two were accused of making the monks and a nun lie face down in a circle and shooting them in the head.

The other youth, Alessandro Garcia, pleaded guilty and testified against Doody. Garcia was also convicted of an unrelated murder of a camper in the Tonto National Forest, carried out two months after the temple murders.

Sheriff's deputies initially believed that four other men from Tucson had committed the temple murders, and when they arrested Doody and Garcia in late October 1991, they tried to get the two to confess to assisting the men from Tucson. Doody was interrogated for 12 hours and kept from seeing his family or a lawyer before he confessed. The other men, known as the "Tucson Four," were cleared and sued the county.

Doody's conviction was overturned by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in May 2011 and sent back to Maricopa County for retrial. No trial date has been set.

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