Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Kimberly Fry, convicted of murdering her daughter, has replaced her lawyers.
Kimberly Fry, convicted of murdering her 8-year-old daughter, has replaced the lawyers who represented her in last year's trial, says the Providence Journal. According to the Journal, Fry wrote a letter to the court explaining that Joseph Salvadore would replace public defenders Sarah Wright and John Lavoy. In her letter, Fry stated she was unaware of her lawyers' intent to pursue the "accidental theory" during trial, in which they argued that Fry accidentally suffocated her daughter while trying to perform a restraint technique on the girl. According to testimony, 8-year-old Camden was in the throes of a temper tantrum after refusing to take a bath. Fry went on to say that her lawyers should have pursued a defense of diminished capacity …
Monday, November 14, 2011
Public Defender Sarah Wright argued jury instructions should have considered "diminished capacity."
Judge William Carnes, Jr. denied a defense motion for a new trial Tuesday, sending convicted murderer Kimberly Fry back to the ACI. Fry, 38, was convicted in October of strangling her 8-year-old daughter, Camden, in August 2009. Fry's attorney, Sarah Wright, argued Thursday and Monday that jury instructions in the original trial should have included the possibility that Fry acted with "diminished capacity," which could lead to the lesser charge of manslaughter. Wright pointed to evidence and testimony presented in the original trial — including Fry's medication usage, sleep deprivation, anxiety and depression — to support that Fry had acted with diminished capacity. Wright also claimed that Fry was "paralyzed" by her "evil impulses." …
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Judge Williams Carnes Jr. will consider a motion for a new trial for convicted murderer Kimberly Fry.
A month after her conviction of second degree murder in the death of her 8-year-old daughter, Kimberly Fry returned to the courtroom Thursday seeking a new trial. Assistant Attorney General Stephen Regine and the state's attorney requested more time to review new exhibits submitted by Fry's attorney, Sarah Wright. Wright argued that jury instructions in the original trial should have included the possibility that Fry acted with "diminished capacity," which could lead to the lesser charge of manslaughter. Wright pointed to evidence and testimony presented in the original trial – including Fry's medication usage, sleep deprivation, anxiety and depression – to support that Fry had acted with diminished capacity. Wright also claimed that Fry …
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Friday, November 4, 2011
Judge William Carnes Jr. scheduled a hearing on the defense motion for next Thursday. Kimberly Fry was convicted in October of murdering her 8-year-old daughter.
Kimberly Fry returns to court next week as attorneys seek a new trial for the convicted murderer. Judge William Carnes, Jr. scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Nov. 10 at 11:30 a.m. to consider a defense motion for a new trial. Public defender Sarah Wright filed the motion, a standard practice after a conviction. Fry, 38, was convicted on Oct. 6 of second-degree murder for strangling her 8-year-old daughter, Camden, in August 2009. While acknowledging that Fry caused the girl's death, the defense maintained there was no intent to kill. Fry, the defense asserted, was attempting to perform a restraint technique designed to stop a tantrum. Camden, who had been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, had a history of violent …
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The motion for a new trial is "standard," according to the Attorney General's office.
A hearing scheduled for today on a motion for a new trial for convicted murderer Kimberly Fry has been canceled. It has not yet been rescheduled. Public Defender Sarah Wright has not filed an appeal, rather a request for a new trial, a standard defense motion after a conviction, according to Amy Kempe, public information officer for the Rhode Island Attorney General's office. At the rescheduled status hearing, Judge William Carnes Jr. will set a date for arguments to be made on the motion. Fry, 38, was convicted on Oct. 6 of second-degree murder for strangling her 8-year-old daughter, Camden, in August 2009. While acknowledging that Fry caused the girl's death, the defense maintained there was no intent to kill. Fry, the defense asserted, …
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
Kimberly Fry faces the possibility of life in prison after the second-degree murder conviction.
Kimberly Fry was convicted of second-degree murder Thursday, found guilty of strangling her 8-year-old daughter, Camden, in August 2009. She now faces the possibility of life in prison. Fry had no visible reaction as the verdict was read, in sharp contrast to her emotional demeanor throughout the three-week-long trial. She looked straight ahead as the jury of six men and six women was polled, and exited quietly with defense attorneys Sarah Wright and John Lavoy soon after. Prosecutor Stephen Regine said he respects the jury's verdict and feels that "justice was done for Camden." Wright and Lavoy declined comment when approached by reporters in the Washington County Courthouse parking lot; all 12 jurors likewise declined to speak to …
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
A jury of six men and six women began deliberations after closing arguments concluded Wednesday afternoon.
If Camden Fry's death was a "tragic accident," why didn't Kimberly Fry call for help after her daughter became unresponsive? Why did she later say she expected to go to jail? Why did she continue to maintain pressure on the 8-year-old girl's chest, neck and/or mouth for more than four minutes after she passed out? Prosecutor Stephen Regine asked the jury to consider those questions as he delivered his closing argument Wednesday afternoon, particularly emphasizing the passage of time between Camden's loss of consciousness and death. Pathologists for both the prosecution and defense testified that continuous pressure must have been applied for four to six minutes after loss of consciousness for death to occur. "What matters in this case is …
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Defense attorney Sarah Wright told the jury Kimberly Fry did not intend to kill her 8-year-old daughter.
Kimberly Fry will never forgive herself for what she did on Aug. 10, 2009, when she killed her 8-year-old daughter, Camden, according to defense attorney Sarah Wright. But, Camden Fry's death was not a vicious killing; was not a violent strangulation; was not murder, Wright said during her closing argument Wednesday morning. It was a tragic accident caused by a troubled, depressed, panicky mother doing all she could restrain an out-of-control child in the throes of a violent, two-hour-long fit of screaming, punching, kicking and biting. "You have a little girl who can't calm herself down, who's out of control, and a mom who just wants to help her," said Wright, who reminded the jury of a prior incident in which Fry had to sit on her …
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
The defense rested Tuesday. Closing arguments are scheduled for Wednesday morning.
Kimberly Fry chose not to take the stand in her second-degree murder trial, and the defense rested Tuesday after having called one witness. "Yes sir, I don't think I could emotionally handle it," Fry told Superior Court Judge William Carnes Jr. when asked whether she was certain of her decision not to testify. Fry left the courtroom sobbing uncontrollably after Carnes denied a defense motion to acquit before the case goes to the jury, ruling it "is reasonable, if the jury should choose to believe it, that the defendant acted with malice," one of the requirements for murder. Closing arguments are scheduled for Wednesday morning, followed by jury instructions before the panel of seven women and six men begin deliberations. One juror was …
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Stephen Regine called into question Dr. Elizabeth Laposata's examination and findings related to Camden Fry's death.
Former medical examiner Dr. Elizabeth Laposata did not take photos to back up her findings when examining Camden Fry's body, never examined a bone in the neck she testified about, and did not study all evidence before determining what happened to the young girl. Prosecutor Stephen Regine pointed out such questions in Laposata's work as he attempted to poke holes in the defense witness' credibility. Laposata, the former chief medical examiner for Rhode Island, performed a private autopsy on Camden's body on Aug. 19, 2009, about a week after her death. She contradicted some of the findings of then-medical examiner Dr. William Cox, who performed the official autopsy two days after her death and testified for the prosecution last week in …
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8:13 am on Friday, February 3, 2012
I believe that justice should be served and she needs to spend the rest of her sorry life in jail she doesnt belong in a mental facility even if she is mentally ill that would be too easy. I work in a mental hospital and u get treated lik kings and queens and I don't believe that someone that could do something so cold blooded should be treated lik the queen of England she deserves the death … more ›