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| Ruling Offers Little Hope to Tenn. Death Row Inmate |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 12/09/2002 |
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Death row inmate Paul House says he has little interest in a federal appeals court ruling ordering a review of his case because of new DNA evidence that could clear him in a 1985 rape and killing. 'I really don't care anymore. Let me go or kill me. That's what I've always said,' House said in an interview at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution. House said he hasn't read the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' 6-5 ruling, which was released Nov. 22 and ordered the Tennessee Supreme Court to review his case. House, 40, was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Carolyn Muncey, whose battered body was found July 14, 1985, partially concealed at the bottom of a wooded embankment. Muncey's children said she left the house after a man told her that her husband, also their father, had been in a car wreck. A friend of the victim's husband said he saw House, an acquaintance of the Munceys, emerging from the embankment where Muncey's body was later found. The appeals court said DNA evidence found on Muncey's body - attributed at trial to House, based on a blood test - instead matched the victim's husband. DNA-matching technology wasn't available during House's trial. Prosecutors argued at trial that House had raped Muncey, then tried to conceal the rape by killing her. The appeals court said DNA evidence has now 'conclusively shown' the semen was not that of House, raising questions about the evidence jurors relied on in making their decision. The court also cited testimony from two new witnesses that Hubert Muncey confessed to killing his wife. House said he once believed that someone would discover he was innocent within six years of his arrest. 'But that was years and years ago. ... I don't really care anymore.' |
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