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KACDL STRIKE FORCE IN ACTION ARCHIVES
Contempt Charges Aimed At
Defense Counsel By Dee McAree staff reporter. A defense attorney in Kansas is charged with contempt of court over evidence that he produced in a death penalty trial last year-an action some defense counsel in the state assert is an act of intimidation. About 15 members of the Kansas Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers packed into the Sedgwick County Courthouse in Wichita, Kan., on Sept. 24 to show support for him at arguments on the charge. The multiple murder trial involved one of the most notorious crimes in the state's history. The defense attorney, John "Val" Wachtel, 58, took on the case of Reginald Carr at the request of the Kansas Board of Indigent Defense Services. Carr and his brother, Jonathan, were accused of dozens of criminal counts that included rape, robbery, sodomy and murder. The contempt charge against Wachtel stems from the prosecution's motion in limine - granted by District Judge Paul W. Clark - to bar the defense from introducing circumstantial evidence to rebut the prosecution's direct evidence of Reginald Carr's guilt. link to complete article in Adobe .pdf format REPRINTED WITH PERMISSION FROM THE OCTOBER 6, 2003 EDITION OF THE THE
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