The Murder of Guy Goodman (Crime Documentary)
- 5 years ago
Carolyn King, convicted along with Bradley Martin in the 1993 murder of Palmyra florist Guy Goodman, should get a new penalty hearing, a Pike County judge appointed to hear the case ruled recently.
Judge Harold A. Thomson Jr. said a new penalty hearing should be held to consider mitigating evidence regarding past abuse and mental disorders that was not presented at King's sentencing hearing in 1994. He said her attorney, M. Jannifer Weiss, testified she didn’t have time to investigate the issues because the penalty phase began immediately after the verdict and that she didn’t feel testimony on the matters would have helped her defense.
Thomson rejected King’s claims that she should get a new trial because Weiss didn’t have sufficient criminal trial experience, among a dozen other reasons.
In 1994 King and Martin were convicted of the murder of Goodman, whom they bound and left to suffocate with a bag taped over his head in the basement of his home. Both appealed their death sentences, and Martin’s was overturned in 2004. They also received life sentences in the shooting death of a North Dakota woman they abducted after Goodman’s murder.
Judge Harold A. Thomson Jr. said a new penalty hearing should be held to consider mitigating evidence regarding past abuse and mental disorders that was not presented at King's sentencing hearing in 1994. He said her attorney, M. Jannifer Weiss, testified she didn’t have time to investigate the issues because the penalty phase began immediately after the verdict and that she didn’t feel testimony on the matters would have helped her defense.
Thomson rejected King’s claims that she should get a new trial because Weiss didn’t have sufficient criminal trial experience, among a dozen other reasons.
In 1994 King and Martin were convicted of the murder of Goodman, whom they bound and left to suffocate with a bag taped over his head in the basement of his home. Both appealed their death sentences, and Martin’s was overturned in 2004. They also received life sentences in the shooting death of a North Dakota woman they abducted after Goodman’s murder.