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Attorney for man accused of killing priest seeks access to report
Waiting to decide whether to plead insanity
Published Thursday, 22-Jan-2004 in issue 839
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — The lawyer for accused priest-killer Joseph Druce said he wants access to a state commission’s investigation into the death of defrocked priest John Geoghan.
“I want it when they get it, including all the interview reports or records of anybody who gave any reports to the commission,” Druce’s lawyer, John LaChance, said at Worcester Superior Court.
Public safety officials will release the results of the panel’s investigation to the public by the end of the month, but certain information about witnesses who spoke to investigators may be kept from the public, Sgt. Ed Principe, a state police spokesman, told the Telegram & Gazette of Worcester.
Druce allegedly beat and strangled Geoghan in Geoghan’s cell at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Institute in Shirley on Aug. 23.
Geoghan was serving a nine to 10 year sentence for groping a 10-year-old boy. He was accused of molesting nearly 150 boys over three decades in civil suits against him and the Archdiocese of Boston.
Druce, who pleaded innocent to the priest’s killing, is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of a gay man in 1988.
LaChance said he had filed motions to acquire information such as prison videotapes and crime scene photos.
A motion hearing for the case was scheduled for Feb. 10.
LaChance also said he is waiting for a doctor to evaluate Druce before deciding whether to seek an insanity defense.
Prison officials moved Druce in the fall from Souza-Baranowski to a disciplinary unit at MCI-Cedar Junction in Walpole.
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