Attorneys for the man accused of killing two Fort Campbell soldiers, including his estranged wife, argued motions in Christian Circuit Court Tuesday morning to have the death penalty eliminated from the case, if he’s convicted.
Jeremy Demar’s attorney, Audra Woosnam appeared before Judge John Atkins to argue five motions in connection to excluding the death penalty from the case. Woosnam cited the Pope and a poll that declared the death penalty unconstitutional. Commonwealth’s Attorney Lynn Pryor countered that the courts have repeatedly upheld the constitutionality of the death penalty and Woosnam’s arguments to exclude the death penalty are premature because Demar hasn’t been convicted.
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Judge Atkins denied all the motions related to the death-penalty, including a motion to declare the Kentucky death penalty unconstitutional.
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Woosnam also filed a motion to suppress the gunshot residue as evidence. Pryor’s argued she couldn’t find a case law that dealt with gunshot residue as an unreasonable search, and could only make a comparison to DNA swabs of suspects.
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Judge Atkins didn’t rule on this motion, and stated he had found a couple of case laws pertaining to this motion. He recessed the hearing until October 11th at 9:00 a.m. to allow Woosnam and Pryor more time to file a written response.
Demar is charged with two counts of murder, attempted murder, assault and burglary in connection to the February 2017 fatal shooting of his wife, 22-year old Priscilla East and 28-year old Christopher Hoch, who police say was trying to protect everyone in the Oak Grove home from Demar. He is scheduled to go to trial in May 2019.
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