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    Frank Winfield Anderson - Arizona Death Row




    Facts of the Crime:

    Leta Kagen, 39, Leta's 15-year-old son, Robert Delahunt, Roland Wear, 50, and Bobby Poyson, 21, lived in a remote area of Mohave County. On August 13, 1996, Frank Anderson, 48, and Kimberly Lane, 15, had been hitchhiking in the area, and Leta agreed to let Anderson and Lane spend the night.

    Anderson, Poyson, and Lane decided to kill Leta, Robert, and Roland, and steal Roland's truck and other property.

    Lane enticed Robert into a travel trailer on the property, where Anderson cut Robert's throat nearly from ear to ear with a bread knife. Anderson held the struggling boy down, and then assisted Poyson in driving the bread knife through Robert's ear, and out his mouth. Poyson finally ended Robert's struggling by crushing his skull with a rock.

    Three to four hours later, after eating dinner, Anderson and Poyson entered Leta's mobile home, and Poyson killed her by shooting her in her head with a rifle, as Anderson held a lantern for light. Roland awoke, and Poyson shot him in his mouth. Poyson then hit Roland with the rifle stock, and Anderson hit him with the lantern. Roland and Poyson struggled out into the yard, where Anderson gave Poyson a cinder block, which Poyson used to bludgeon Roland to death.

    Anderson was sentenced to death on June 2, 1998.

    Lane has since been released from prison after testifying against Anderson and Poyson. Poyson was also sentenced to death. For more on Poyson, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...ghlight=poyson

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    Judge denies one motion, takes another under advisement

    A Superior Court judge denied one motion Tuesday and took under advisement another filed by two men convicted of the 1996 triple murder in Golden Valley.

    Judge Rick Williams heard a motion to reconsider his ruling in August that denied a motion to depose a former judge in the case of Frank Anderson and Bobby Poyson, two of nine Mohave County inmates who currently sit on death row.

    Anderson, 62, was sentenced to death in December 2002 for killing a Golden Valley family in August 1996. His co-defendant, Poyson, 34, also received the death sentence after being convicted in November 1998 for the murders.

    A third co-defendant, Kimberly Lane, has since been released from prison after testifying against Anderson.

    The attorney for Anderson filed a motion to reconsider Williams’ original denial of a motion saying that former Superior Court Judge James Chavez violated the defendant’s rights by appointing an incompetent attorney to handle Anderson’s case.

    Assistant Arizona Attorney’s General J.D. Nielsen argued against the reconsideration that Anderson’s attorney vigorously advocated on behalf of Anderson and provided fair counsel.

    Williams denied the motion in August and again denied the motion Tuesday. He also took under advisement a post-conviction relief motion for Anderson and Poyson that included several issues including ineffective counsel and the use of lethal injection in executions.

    Anderson, Poyson and Lane were convicted of murdering Leta Kagen, her 15-year-old son, Robert Delahunt, and Roland Wear at Kagen’s Golden Valley home Aug. 12, 1996. Anderson and Lane had hitchhiked to Golden Valley from California. After the murders, the three suspects stole Wear’s pickup truck and fled to Illinois, where Anderson, after dropping Poyson and Lane off near Chicago, was arrested in southern Illinois.

    Daniel Wayne Cook of Lake Havasu City, 49, another death row inmate from Mohave County, is also awaiting a ruling from the Arizona Supreme Court whether to execute Cook, who received the death penalty in August 1988 for beating, torturing and killing two men in Lake Havasu City in July 1987.

    Cook’s post-conviction relief is expected back in Mohave County Superior Court to be determined by a criminal court judge. Whether the case returns to the Supreme Court depends on what happens in Superior Court. No date has been set in Superior Court.

    http://www.mohavedailynews.com/artic...f623088088.txt

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    Triple-murderer appeals death sentence

    By JIM SECKLER
    The Mohave Daily News

    KINGMAN — The case of a California drifter who was convicted of a 1996 triple murder in Golden Valley was back in Superior Court Tuesday.

    The day after another Mohave County death row inmate had a hearing to appeal his conviction, Frank Winfield Anderson’s attorney is arguing another appeal of his client’s death sentence. Anderson, 65, was sentenced to death in December 2002 for killing a Golden Valley family in August 1996.

    Anderson’s co-defendant, Robert Poyson, 37, also received the death penalty in November 1998 for the murders. A third co-defendant, Kimberly Lane, served eight years and has since been released from prison after testifying against Anderson.

    Anderson was first convicted and sentenced to death in 1998. The Arizona Supreme Court reversed the conviction and death sentence and the case was retried in Mohave County in 2002. Under a new law, Anderson was the first defendant in Arizona where a jury, not a judge, decided the sentence in a death penalty case.

    Superior Court Judge Rick Williams set a hearing for May 16 to argue a motion to disqualify the county attorney’s office from the appeal’s case.

    Anderson’s attorney, John Saccoman, is arguing that former Superior Court Judge James Chavez erred by appointing an attorney and co-counsel for Anderson for his second trial. At the time, there were no attorneys in the public attorney’s office qualified to handle a death penalty case.

    Saccoman is arguing that the attorney and the co-counsel lacked the proficiency and commitment to handle Anderson’s capital case. He also argued that Chavez’s selection of the attorney was a conflict of interest. Saccoman argued that Chavez sentenced Anderson to death after his first trial, then selected his attorney for the second trial, which gives an appearance of impropriety.

    The appeals attorney also argued that Anderson’s attorney for his second trial did not pursue mitigating evidence including Anderson’s abusive childhood. He also argues that his client is incompetent to be sentenced to death.

    Anderson, Poyson and Lane were convicted of murdering Leta Kagen, her 15-year-old son, Robert Delahunt, and Roland Wear at Kagen’s Golden Valley home Aug. 12, 1996. Anderson and Lane had hitchhiked to Golden Valley from California.

    After the murders, the three suspects stole Wear’s pickup truck and fled to Illinois. Anderson, after dropping Poyson and Lane off near Chicago, was arrested in southern Illinois.

    http://www.mohavedailynews.com/artic...a525155374.txt

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    On January 20, 2023, Anderson filed a habeas petition in federal district court.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/ar...v08023/1323665
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