Accused killer Clem Beauchamp gets new lawyers
Accused killer Clem Beauchamp received two new attorneys this morning to fight first-degree murder charges in the deaths eight months apart of his ex-girlfriend and her two children.
Circuit Judge Richard Oftedal appointed defense attorneys Michael Maher and Ron Chapman to represent Beauchamp during a hearing in the death penalty case this morning.
Beauchamp, 35, was indicted on first degree murder charges in September in connection with the deaths of 25-year-old Felicia Brown and her two children.
Brown's badly decomposed body was discovered at a West Palm Beach landfill in August 2010. The bodies of her 10-year-old son, Jermaine McNeil, and 6-year-old daughter, Ju'Tyra Allen, were discovered in March stuffed in pieces of luggage found floating in a Delray Beach canal.
Beauchamp's case was originally assigned to the public defender's office, which withdrew from the case. Beauchamp then had an attorney from the Criminal Conflict and Civil Regional Counsel Office, which handles cases when a public defender's office has a conflict, but attorneys from that office withdrew as well this morning.
Oftedal set another hearing in Beauchamp's case for May 7. Beauchamp last year was sentenced to 10 years in prison on a federal gun charge. Prosecutors have said that Brown was expected to be a witness against him in that case when she disappeared.
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