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Defense gives judge murderer's written confession
[August 14, 2009] WHEATON (AP) -- A defense attorney has asked a judge to bar prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against a convicted murderer who has pleaded guilty to the 1983 slaying of a 10-year-old Illinois girl.
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Brian Dugan's attorney argued Thursday that the long delay makes it too difficult to find evidence for mercy. The defense submitted a confession Dugan reportedly wrote in 1985 in which he admitted raping and killing Jeanine Nicarico of Naperville. The defense contends Dugan wanted to clear two other men wrongly convicted in the case. Those men endured multiple trials, death sentences and more than 10 years in prison before being cleared. The 52-year-old Dugan has been serving two life prison terms for two other murders. Jury selection for his sentencing in the Nicarico case begins Sept. 18. ___ Information from: Daily Herald, http://www.dailyherald.com/ |
