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    Daniel Prince Sentenced in 2005 LA Slayings of Jackie Campbell and Angie Motte



    Two weeks have been set aside in 15th Judicial District Court for the capital murder trial of a man accused of killing two Acadia Parish women in January 2005.

    Judge Kristian Earles has designated April 11 through April 23 (Good Friday) for Daniel Prince’s trial.

    A final motions date has been set for March 31.

    Earles, according to court documents, has instructed that a jury pool be summoned for April 7.

    Potential jurors will be issued a questionnaire approved by the court before 20 to 25 are called at a time for voir dire – the oral examination by defense and prosecution which concludes with selection of jurors.

    Some extraordinary measures are involved it he process in this instance because it is a capital case.

    The state believes Prince “knowingly created a risk of death or great bodily harm to more than one person ... committed in an especially heinous, atrocious or cruel manner.”

    Aggravating circumstances are most often brought into play if a capital defendant is found guilty and the jury is considering the death penalty.

    The state is seeking the death penalty in this case.

    The state will try to prove that Prince, 34, killed Jackie Campbell and Angie Motte at their Branch home, then set fire to it to cover his crime.

    The killings occurred on the weekend of Campbell’s 40th birthday. Motte was 38 at the time of her death.

    Prince, also known as Daniel Bernard, was arrested by Acadia authorities in 2007 after allegedly bragging to fellow inmates while service time on another charge about the murders and was indicted in October 2007.

    Since the indictment, the case has been the subject of numerous motions and hearings. It is not unusual for hundreds of pages of paperwork to stack up in capital cases.

    Under Louisiana law, if the DA seeks a capital verdict and the jury convicts, then the accused is punished by death or by mandatory life imprisonment, a determination made by the jury in the trial’s penalty phase. A death sentence requires a unanimous jury vote.

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    3rd Circuit bars some testimony in Acadia double-murder case, pre-trial maneuvering continues

    CROWLEY -- Legal maneuvering continues with no new trial date yet set in the capital murder trial of Daniel Prince, accused of killing two Branch women in January 2005.

    Prince’s most-recent trial date was April 11-23, but it was continued on April 7, the day jury selection was scheduled to begin, on a motion by the defense, which told Judge Kristian Earles it needed more time to complete psychiatric evaluations of its client as well as complete possible penalty phase investigation and preparation.

    In capital cases, if a jury convicts, then a second phase is held in which the jurors decide the defendant’s fate.

    The state alleges Prince, 34, killed Jackie Campbell and Angie Motte at their Branch home, then set fire to it to cover his crime.

    The defense filed a motion April 6 seeking to preclude from evidence presented at trial photos it considers “unduly prejudicial.”

    Those are photos showing the charred remains of the victims, which the defense class are inflammatory and appeal to the passions and prejudices of the jury, which it says is constitutionally prohibited.

    According to now-sealed documents in the case file, the coroner’s report indicated the women were probably dead before the fire.

    Also according to the now-sealed file, Prince allegedly told a fellow inmate in Allen Correctional Center that he killed the women before burning their house.

    The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeal has ruled that what Prince told inmate Michael Hayes after Hayes became an “agent of the state” is inadmissible at trial.

    “Testimony of detectives indicated Prince had previously invoked (against self incrimination) yet detectives instructed Hayes to elicit information while using electronic surveillance equipment,” the court ruled.

    What Hayes told them before he was wired is admissible, according to the ruling.

    On Dec. 13, 2006, Hayes wrote to Acadia Detective Phyllis Lejeune:

    “I hope this letter finds you doing well. This letter is in regard to a double homicide that you are investigating in your parish.

    “I might have some information that you could use. I really don’t want to say anything else at this time, but on the subject of Daniel Brandon Prince. Merry Christmas and I hope you have a Happy New Year.”

    Subsequently, Hayes was wired by State Police for a conversation with Prince. That tape is sealed and the 3rd Circuit says cannot be used.

    The appellate judges upheld Earles’ denial of a defense motion to quash Prince’s grand jury indictment.

    The 3rd Circuit also upheld Earles’ ruling that evidence relating to Prince’s previous conviction in Vermilion Parish for burglary and car theft is admissible at trial and relevant to the crime at hand.

    Earles still has under advisement a motion for change of venue.

    The defense claims Prince cannot get an impartial trial in Acadia Parish because of notoriety and publicity about the now-six-year-old murders.

    Earles deferred that ruling until the jury selection process.

    On April 7, when a venire of potential jurors had been assembled for what was to be the April 11 trial, the judge after continuing the trial pulled the names of 20 of the prospective jurors to question them about their knowledge of the case.

    More than 50 witnesses had been subpoenaed for the April 11 trial, including nine from the Acadia Parish Sheriff’s Office, three from the regional coroner’s staff, four from the Fire Marshal’s Office and two news media representatives

    Read more: EuniceToday.com - 3rd Circuit bars some testimony in Acadia double murder case pre trial maneuvering continues

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    Daniel Prince Murdered Sentenced to Life

    An Acadia Parish man has been sentenced to life in prison. In 2005, Daniel Prince Murdered Angela Matte and Jackie Campbell in their trailer in Branch after they had been out celebrating Campbell's 40th birthday. He then set the trailer on fire to conceal the murders.

    Numerous motions by his attorneys along with a delay after he was charged with smuggling marijuana and pornography into the Acadia Parish Jail delayed the trial for five years. Prince was sentenced to life in prison, without the chance of parole.

    http://www.klfy.com/story/21086564/d...rince-murdered
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