Prosecutor Fights Effort to Boot Him from Triple-Murder Case, Due to Book Deal
A county prosecutor in Indiana is fighting an effort to force him off a triple-murder case, due to his involvement in a potential true-crime book deal prior to the defendant’s sentencing.
Floyd County Prosecutor Keith Henderson, who reportedly inked a contract with a literary agent a week after defendant David Camm was found guilty in a second trial but before he was sentenced, says he did nothing wrong. However, Camm’s conviction was overturned and he is now facing a third triple-murder trial, prompting his defense counsel to object to Henderson’s claimed conflict of interest, according to the News and Tribune.
“So profound is the conflict that every action by the prosecutor must be considered in light of his desire to publish this book,” a defense motion states.
However, Henderson says he resolved the contract by canceling a 2009 book contract after Camm’s conviction for murdering his wife and two children was reversed.
“I never thought then, nor do I think now, that signing an agreement to write about a case once it was over, that it was a conflict of interest,” Henderson states.
The defense is also seeking to discover what Henderson said in a draft of a book about the Camm case.
