Judge Denies Motion To Postpone Second Death Penalty Trial For Donald Fell

Vermont Public | By Mitch Wertlieb,

Published December 16, 2016 at 9:37 AM EST

The second trial for a man convicted of abducting and killing a North Clarendon woman 16 years ago is going forward without delay. Donald Fell was originally convicted for the kidnapping and murder of Terry King in 2005, but his death sentence was overturned due to juror misconduct, and a new trial was ordered.

That trial is set to begin early next year after U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford denied a recent defense motion to postpone trial. Judge Crawford also denied a motion to declare the death penalty unconstitutional.

To learn more about what's been going on in the second trial of Donald Fell, VPR spoke with Adam Federman, a reporter covering Rutland County for VTDigger.

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Mitch Wertlieb

A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.

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