Posted on 03/21/2007 3:45:06 PM PDT by SmithL
NASHVILLE — A former Nashville attorney convicted of murdering his wife and plotting to kill her parents schemed to get himself transferred to a less secure Tennessee prison so he could escape, officials say.
Perry March instead was moved to a maximum-security facility and placed in isolation, Dorinda Carter, a spokeswoman for the Tennessee Department of Correction, said Tuesday.
Prison officials declined to say how they learned of the alleged escape plot, citing the ongoing investigation.
One of March's lawyers, John Herbison, said he was skeptical of the claims by prison officials and questioned why they have refused to disclose details of the allegations against his longtime client.
March is serving a 56-year sentence for stealing from his law firm, killing his wife and plotting, from the Metro Nashville jail, the killings of his former in-laws, Carolyn and Lawrence Levine.
March, 45, was convicted in August after prosecutors used circumstantial evidence and testimony from jail inmates and his own father to convince the jury that he killed his wife, Janet Levine March in 1996.
Her body has never been found, although his father, who is now deceased, told police he dumped the remains in Kentucky.
March had been held at the Northwest Correctional Complex, a prison in the northwest corner of the state. He was moved March 2 to the West Tennessee State Prison near Memphis.
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