Posted on 10/14/2004 6:07:04 PM PDT by wjersey
It was back in 1996 that Ann Marie Fahey disappeared. Nearly three years later Capano, a millionaire and political insider, was convicted of killing his former mistress and dumping her body at sea. Now Capano says his lawyers botched the case. It's a new courthouse, but the same old case for Tom Capano. He's asking a judge to overturn his murder conviction because he says his high powered attorneys, all four of them, were ineffective.
Charles Oberly/DEFENSE ATTORNEY:
"Obviously I disagree with that. We did whatever we could." But this former attorney general turned defense attorney says Tom Capano made representing him almost impossible. Just listen to how he describes the once wealthy prominent lawyer. "Manipulative, controlling, and basically he wanted to determine how things were going to be done and basically he was a very difficult client to deal with." Capano was sentenced to death for the 1996 killing of Anne Marie Fahey, a scheduling secretary for then Governor Tom Carper. "It's just poposterous." That's what Ann Marie Fahey's sister thinks about Tom Capano's claims that he received ineffective counsel. Adding after reading her dead sister's diary, she's not surprised to hear that Capano was a difficult client. Kathleen Fahey-Hosey/SISTER:
"Her last entry was I've finally brought closure to Tom Capano. What a controlling manipulative maniac I believe is what the comment was." Tom Capano hopes to convince the judge that among other things, pre trial publicity - which was often national, effected the outcome of his case. And also, that his attorneys should have informed the court that he couldn't assist them because he was either under or over medicated at times. Joseph Bernstein considers the appeal claims he's making against Capano's former defense team to be typical in a capitol case. The former state prosecutor agrees. "It's a stop along either way that most defendants go through." Joseph Bernstein/CAPANO'S ATTORNEY:
"If you don't raise a claim, you'll lose it." Today only one of Capano's four attorneys testified. Next week all three will appear. That means one will have to travel from Massachusetts, the other from Florida.
Tortured souls in hell want ice water, too.
It would be a waste to have him hung, but I would loved to see him hanged. (:-)
I thought the brother said he helped him dump her in the ocean.
I have local connections to this case. It was the biggest thing to hit Delaware since Limited Liability Partnerships.
Did I remember this correctly?
They never found the body, but they did find the cooler he stuffed her in washed up on the shore, complete with bullet holes. Capano is a real psychopath.
Is the brother still hanging on to his story? And what about the rest of his family?
Yeah, he did. But they never recovered the body.
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