In addition to savagery, and in addition to doing the same defence lawyer, the death penalty case at this time drew attention to the Northampton County have in common.
In any case, there is an attempt to get the accused murderer off the hook by claiming he had mental problems and therefore should not be punished or, more to the point, should not face the main punishment.
In April, Michael Ballard pleaded guilty in the murder of four people, including a neighbor who tried to help after he heard the screams of the others were massacred in Northampton House. When Ballard was on parole after killing an Allentown in 1991.
He was sentenced to death in the raging more recently, despite arguments by defense lawyers Michael Corriere that mental problem should forgive him this week, the judge in the case of having to maintain several rulings when the sentence is automatically appealed to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. For one thing, Corriere argues that the judge erred by allowing the jury sees photos of victim. In the case of the murder, I gather, the jury should not exposed to something fun.
In August, George Hitcho Jr., accused of killing police officer Robert Freemansburg Lasso after responding to a 911 call from Lasso’s neighbors, who said someone tried to get into his house.