Joseph Duncan
Joseph Duncan, who was convicted of killing children in Idaho and California, has returned to U.S. District Court in Boise to prepare for a review of part of his death penalty case.
Duncan was in court Thursday while U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge began the process of selecting an attorney to represent him in a competency hearing. An appellate court ordered the hearing last year after Duncan’s former attorneys argued he wasn’t competent to waive his appeals.
Duncan was sentenced to death for the 2005 murder of 9-year-old Dylan Groene at a Montana camp site. Prosecutors said Duncan snatched Dylan and his sister from their Coeur d’Alene home after killing three family members. Duncan also was convicted in California of killing a 10-year-old boy. Additionally, he confessed, but wasn’t charged, to killing two Washington girls. (AP)
