Duncan defense wants video shown in open court

By REBECCA BOONE ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER BOISE, Idaho -- Defense lawyers for convicted child killer Joseph Edward Duncan III have asked a judge to ensure that if a video showing Duncan torturing a child he later killed is shown to jurors, it is shown in open court. The defense team made the request in a motion filed Friday, siding with media organizations that have argued for greater openness in Duncan's death penalty proceedings. Duncan, a convicted pedophile from Tacoma, Wash., pleaded guilty in December to 10 federal charges related to his 2005 kidnapping of two young siblings, Dylan and Shasta Groene, and the murder of Dylan. The children were snatched from their Coeur d'Alene home after Duncan fatally bludgeoned the children's mother, Brenda Groene, their 13-year-old brother Slade, and the mother's fiance, Mark McKenzie.... [read full story]