This week, Harold Henthorn, who was found guilty of killing his second wife Toni Henthorn in 2012, will appear in a federal courtroom in Denver to request that his conviction be overturned and that he be given a new trial. Henthorn claims that during the course of defending him, his trial attorney “acted in his own self-interest, was dishonest, and committed fraud.”
Craig Truman, his trial lawyer, said to CBS4 that “We never discuss our cases outside of court.”Henthorn has charged Truman with providing “ineffective advice.”Henthorn was found guilty by a federal jury of shoving Toni, his second wife, from a cliff at Rocky Mountain National Park in 2012.
The prosecution’s theory states that Henthorn would have received the $4.7 million.
According to the theory put forth by the prosecution, Henthorn would have received the $4.7 million in life insurance that he had purchased for his wife.Harold Henthorn entered a not guilty plea and has insisted on his innocence at all times.After around ten and a half hours of deliberation, a jury found Henthorn guilty of murder in 2015.
Additionally, prosecutors and police detectives think Henthorn killed his first wife Lynn, who passed away inexplicably in 1995 in Douglas County.Henthorn will now attempt to convince the judge that his legal defence was inadequate during his murder trial and that his conviction should be overturned in order to have a fresh trial.
According to a court clerk, the application will be considered in federal court starting on Monday.Henthorn, who is presently serving a life term for murder, will appear remotely from a federal prison in Indiana.
One of Toni Henthorn’s brothers, Todd Bertolet, told CBS4 “Harold Henthorn’s appeals about the case’s actual merits have been rejected and exhausted.
Another instance of Harold Henthorn putting the blame for his mistakes and weaknesses on others is this most recent move.”
Nathan Chambers, Henthorn’s new counsel, refrained from making any remarks on the upcoming hearing.A infamous murderer who has been in prison for the past ten years is attempting to leave.
The first wife of Harold Henthorn passed away in mysterious circumstances.First wife Lynn and second wife Toni stand to either side of Harold Henthorn.
Was Henthorn a murderous person?
Walsh raised the prospect of such by pointing out that “When Harold Henthorn was changing a tyre in a rural area in 1995, his previous wife was hit by an automobile and suffered injuries that led to her death.
He was apparently throwing the tire into the trunk when the automobile allegedly came off the jack, smashing his wife who was for some reason underneath the car.
Harold Henthorn was the only witness, and a life insurance policy on her had been purchased months earlier.”First wife Lynn and second wife Toni stand to either side of Harold Henthorn.
Was Henthorn a murderous person?
Walsh raised the prospect of such by pointing out that “When Harold Henthorn was changing a tyre in a rural area in 1995, his previous wife was hit by an automobile and suffered injuries that led to her death.
Harold Henthorn was the only witness, and a life insurance policy on her had been purchased months earlier.”
Today, May 24, at 9 a.m., Judge R. Brooke Jackson will preside over the second day of an evidentiary hearing requested by plaintiff. Harold Henthorn in United States District Court for the District of Colorado. Harold Henthorn was convicted in 2015 for pushing his second wife. Dr. Toni Henthorn, off Deer Mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park in 2012, resulting in her death.
Henthorn is asking for his conviction to be overturned and a new trial to be held.
Henthorn is requesting that his conviction be overturned and a new trial be granted. According to documents obtained by CBS4 Denver. Because his attorney, Craig Truman, charged him more than $1 million to represent him but. Provided no defense” and “explained to me only after. It was too late that he sold me down the river,” according to Henthorn.
Neither Truman nor Nathan Chambers, Henthorn’s most recent attorney, are making any comments regarding the matter.
Henthorn, though, has traveled this path before.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit dismissed his claim in 2017. That testimony about the strange death of Henthorn’s first wife. Lynn, and a serious accident Toni experienced the year before her death had tipped the jury against him.
And in 2018, the U.S. The Supreme Court declined to consider the case. Which got widespread media attention because of programmes like CBS’s 48 Hours, a newsmagazine programme.
Because Rocky Mountain National Park is federal property, the matter had been assigned to then-U.S. Attorney John Walsh for prosecution.
There are three $1.5 million life insurance policies on Toni Henthorn, according to the investigation.
“Investigation has revealed there are three $1.5 million life insurance policies on Toni Henthorn. Two of which are in trusts, and one in which Harold Henthorn is the sole beneficiary. Walsh wrote in the charging document. “On September 29, 2012, Toni Henthorn fell to her death with Harold Henthorn. As the only witness, in a remote location in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.”
Henthorn claimed in his statement of allegations against Truman that Truman. Behaved selfishly and prioritized his own financial benefit over providing a strong defense for me.
The whole purpose of his work with me, according to Henthorn. It was to extract as much money as he could from me and my immediate family. Truman, according to him, charged him $1,064,772 for his defense.
He didn’t offer any defense in return. He only admitted to having sold me out to me when it was too late. It is anticipated that the evidentiary hearing will last two to three days.
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