Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, March 15, 1991 TAG: 9103150350
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C4 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Monica Davey
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
"We've had some delays in getting it together," Detroit lawyer Rick Neaton said in a phone interview Thursday. "It's not that anything has happened other than that I've had other things to do on this case."
Soering was convicted last summer of the 1985 murders of his girlfriend's parents, Derek and Nancy Haysom. On Feb. 1, Neaton said he had new information from an anthropologist that would show that Soering could not have made one of several bloody sock prints left in the victims' house the night they were stabbed to death.
The evidence, Neaton said, could not have been ascertained in time for Soering's trial last June and warranted a new trial. Neaton called newspaper and television reporters to tell them of his findings.
At that time, Neaton said he would file a motion during the next week asking for a new trial, including an affidavit from the Kent (Ohio) State University anthropology professor.
That would have been Feb. 4-8.
On Thursday, Neaton said he expected to file the motion by late next week.
Early next week, Neaton must submit another item connected to the case to the Court of Appeals in Richmond. A brief, outlining reasons for an appeal of the conviction, is due Monday.
by CNB