![]() ”I felt there was enough circumstantial evidence that he motivated and influenced them,” Mr. Rimmer said that it was up to the juries to decide which version of the events was accurate and that they did so today. Rimmer said that his office brought both cases because the boys confessed to the crime before recanting before a grand jury and saying they were covering up for Mr. But the prosecutors’ approach greatly increased the attention and brought criticism from legal experts, who said it was rare to conduct separate prosecutions for a crime that only one defendant or set of defendants could have committed.ĭavid Rimmer, the assistant state attorney who prosecuted both cases, was under a court order of silence during the trials. ![]() ![]() The age of the boys and the nature of the crime brought extensive attention to the case from the beginning. Chavis is said to have been sexually obsessed with Alex. After two trials in which the prosecution presented different accounts of the same killing, a jury today convicted 13-year-old Alex King and 14-year-old Derek King of murdering their sleeping father in November and setting their house on fire to cover up their actions.Ī separate jury acquitted Ricky Chavis, a 40-year-old family friend, who was tried for the same killing of the boys’ father, Terry Lee King.
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