Here are a couple of articles related to the murder of Terry King. A related story of Daniel Carter is also present in Article # 2.

Article # 1- Alex and Derek King

King Boys Case Profiled on A&E [The Injustice System for Americas Children] - summer - derekandalexking@yahoo.com @ 14:29:10

Broadcast profiles King trial

Michael Stewart
@PensacolaNewsJournal.com

Pensacola will be in the national spotlight once again with the airing of "Blood Brothers: The Derek and Alex King Case" tonight on the A&E cable network.

The show, which is part of the "American Justice" series, will broadcast at 8 p.m. on Cox Communication's Channel 48 and MediaCom's Channel 36.

"Our main interest is the prosecution of the two boys and how the justice system dealt with children their age," said Jennifer Scott, a publicity coordinator for Towers Productions, which produced the show.

When firefighters entered a burning Cantonment home of on Nov. 26, 2001, they found the body of Terry King, 40, who had been beaten to death with a baseball bat.

King's two sons - Alex, who was 12 at the time, and Derek, then 13 - ended up pleading guilty to third-degree murder after court-ordered mediation.

Derek was sentenced to eight years in prison and Alex to seven years. They were the youngest prisoners in the adult prison system until they were reassigned to juvenile facilities.

Ricky Chavis, then 40, a convicted child molester who was accused by the two boys of having a sexual relationship with Alex, took the boys to his home after the murder. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison for accessory to murder and tampering with evidence. The producer of the show, Jane Petrof, said investigators researched the show for about a month and spent five days in Pensacola interviewing lawyers on both sides of the case, investigators and relatives of the two boys.

www.aetv.com/tv/shows/amerjustice/

Article # 2 – Related Story of Daniel Carter

Daniel Carter [The Injustice System for Americas Children] -  Summer - derekandalexking@yahoo.com @ 00:16:08

PUBLISHED SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2003

http://www.gulfcoastgateway.com/news/011903/Local/ST004.shtml

King brothers draw sympathetic spotlight from fellow troubled teenager
Read also: Troubled teen, angry uncle: fatal mix

Alan Gomez
@PensacolaNewsJournal.com

For more than a year, the angelic faces of Alex and Derek King drew people from around the world into the youngsters` murder trial.

People wrote letters supporting the kids, bashed the prosecutor and the Florida judicial system and rallied outside the courthouse where the boys would face a life term in prison if convicted of first-degree murder as adults. Web sites defending the boys sprung up.

Meanwhile, another young teen was sitting alongside the King boys in the Escambia County Jail, awaiting his own day in court on the same first-degree murder charge but ignored by the masses pleading for justice.

Daniel Carter, 15, is charged with killing his uncle with a machete-style knife during a confrontation last year in the boy`s Beulah home.

Alex and Derek were 12 and 13 when they killed their sleeping father with a baseball bat, and Daniel isn`t much older.

Circuit Judge Frank Bell, who ordered mediation to settle the Kings` case, also is presiding over Daniel`s case. David Rimmer, the Kings` prosecutor, also is prosecuting Daniel`s case. James Stokes, Alex`s defense attorney, is defending Daniel.

But most of the similarities in the two cases end there.

Unlike the Kings, Daniel has a defense that even Rimmer concedes could work in a jury trial, prompting the prosecutor to offer a plea bargain.

So why is Daniel not getting the attention garnered by Alex and Derek? Why are child advocates not speaking out on the possibility of his spending his life in prison?

Could it be that Alex and Derek, with their pint-size bodies and polished looks, look like the boy next door, while Daniel, standing 6-foot-1 with shaggy hair creeping down over his eyes, looks like the kid from the other side of the tracks? "What do you think?" asked Cynthia Price Cohen, executive director of the Child Rights International Research Institute in New York.

Price Cohen followed the King case closely, but hadn`t heard of Daniel`s case until called by a reporter.

She said part of the King boys` appeal was that they didn`t look like "gutter" children, but like a child who could be sitting next to you in church.

"It was like they had somebody in the wings combing their hair for them every day," she said. "It was unreal. Costuming is everything as far as getting attention from the public or the media."

Stokes is confused by the public ignoring Daniel`s situation but has one theory.

"We could basically feel sorry for one kid at a time," he said. "I guess it`s too much overload."
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Article # 3 – Regarding Rick Chavis

[The Injustice System for Americas Children] -  Summer - derekandalexking@yahoo.com @ 07:59:25

Fla. Man Convicted As Accessory to Murder
By BILL KACZOR
Associated Press Writer


PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP)--A convicted child molester was found guilty Wednesday of being an accessory to murder for helping two young brothers who bludgeoned their father to death with a baseball bat.

Ricky Chavis, 41, was sentenced to the maximum 30 years in prison after he was found guilty of accessory after the fact to first-degree murder and evidence tampering.

He received 30 years for the first charge and five years for the tampering, with the sentences to run concurrently.

Chavis, who has been convicted of 17 felonies, helped Alex and Derek King cover up the Nov. 26, 2001, beating death of their father, Terry King, 40, at their home in nearby Cantonment.

At the time, Alex was 12 and Derek was 13.

After the home was set on fire, the boys called Chavis. He picked them up, took them to his Pensacola home, washed their clothes and hid them from police before turning them in the next day.

Chavis started straight ahead when the verdict was read and showed no emotion. His lawyer, Michael Rollo, argued the sentence was disproportionate to the seven and eight-year sentences the boys received for the killing.

``It's just simply not fair. This is politics, judge. This is a persecution not a prosecution,'' Rollo said.

The boys and Chavis were tried separately for first-degree murder. Chavis was acquitted, but another jury convicted the brothers of second-degree murder. Those jurors later complained about the prosecution's decision to try the boys and Chavis for the same crime under different theories of what happened.

A judge threw out the boys' convictions and ordered mediation that resulted in both pleading guilty to third-degree murder. Alex is serving seven years and Derek eight at separate juvenile facilities.

Chavis was also convicted last month of falsely imprisoning Alex, now 13, and sentenced to five years in prison.

Chavis' past convictions include: 17 felonies, 3 misdemeanors, 2 counts of child molestation, grand theft, and false imprisonment.

Article # 4- Regarding Rick Chavis

[The Injustice System for Americas Children] -  Summer - derekandalexking@yahoo.com @ 03:26:23

From the Herald

Transcripts late, Chavis' third Pensacola trial delayed

By BILL KACZOR
Associated Press Writer


Ricky Chavis obtained a delay for his third trial related to the murder of a friend who was killed by the victim's two adolescent sons because transcripts from the last case were not ready Monday.

Circuit Judge Joseph Tarbuck postponed the trial for a week. It was supposed to begin Monday with jury selection.

Chavis, 41, could face a maximum prison sentence of 35 years if convicted of evidence tampering and accessory after the fact to first-degree murder.

He is accused of picking up Alex and Derek King, then 12 and 13, after Derek killed their father by hitting him in the head with an aluminum baseball bat on Nov. 26, 2001. Alex had urged his brother to kill Terry King, 40, while he slept in a recliner at his home in nearby Cantonment.

Escambia County sheriff's investigators say Chavis admitted taking the boys, now 13 and 14, to his Pensacola home where he washed their clothing and hid them from police before turning them in the next day.

Defense lawyer Michael Rollo said a transcription of the King brothers' testimony at Chavis' last trial is vital to showing the boys have a history of lying under oath.

"If I don't have it I can't impeach them whether or not the state calls them," Rollo said.

A six-member jury on Feb. 12 convicted Chavis of falsely imprisoning Alex. Circuit Judge Frank Bell immediately sentenced him to the maximum of five years in prison.

Those jurors, however, refused to believe Alex's claim Chavis repeatedly had molested him in the months before the killing. They acquitted him on 10 counts of lewd or lascivious battery and one of kidnapping, which could have resulted in a life sentence.

The state also tried Chavis and the King brothers before separate juries on first-degree murder charges last year.

Chavis' jury then also rejected the brothers' claims he was the killer and acquitted him. The boys' jury convicted them of second-degree murder without a weapon, but Bell set aside the verdict and ordered mediation.

The King brothers then pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, admitting their accusation against Chavis was a lie. Bell sentenced Alex to seven years and Derek to eight years. They are serving their time at separate juvenile facilities.

The King boys have been returned to Pensacola as potential witnesses although Assistant State Attorney David Rimmer has said he hopes he will not need them. Rollo, however, could call them to the witness stand to impeach their credibility.

Rimmer argued against delaying the trial so the King brothers would not have to spend an extra week away from detention and that Rollo has plenty of impeachment material from the murder trials and other statements the boys have made.

Rollo replied that the brothers made new statements in their testimony two weeks.

Tarbuck said getting the boys back to detention was not a compelling reason to try Chavis without the transcripts.

Article # 5- Regarding David Rimmer

[The Injustice System for Americas Children] -  Summer - derekandalexking@yahoo.com @ 03:12:50

David Rimmer



Depending on your point of view, Assistant State Attorney David Rimmer, the lead prosecutor in the Terry King murder case, is either 1-2 or 0-3.

Rimmer lost another big one when Ricky Chavis was acquitted of 10 counts of sexually molesting then 12-year-old Alex King, who along with his brother Derek King, is serving time in a juvenile prison for helping to carry out the grisly murder of his father in November 2001.

Rimmer also failed to win a conviction last September when Chavis was acquitted of murdering Alex and Derek’s father. First Circuit Court Judge Frank Bell threw out the boys’ murder conviction, and the youths later reached a plea agreement.

Some family members and legal experts complained that Rimmer’s recent case against Chavis relied too much on Alex’s testimony. They question why the State Attorney’s Office didn’t hire an expert who works with child abuse victims to help the jury find their way.

Rimmer, who received heaps of criticism last summer from legal analysts for conducting separate trials charging both Chavis and the King brothers of first-degree murder, has one more shot in the courtroom. Chavis is looking at 35 years max in prison when a Feb. 24 trial begins on charges of accessory after the fact to murder and evidence tampering.

Article # 6- Regarding Alex and Derek King Lies

Carnival Of Errors [The Injustice System for Americas Children] - summer - derekandalexking@yahoo.com @ 05:06:43

Pensacola Florida
2/13/2003

King boys' earlier lies hurt Pensacola molestation case

By BILL KACZOR
The Associated Press
2/13/03 3:35 PM

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- Vague testimony and lies told by teenagers Alex and Derek King since their arrest for murdering their father with a baseball bat made Alex's claim that a family friend molested him difficult for jurors to believe, lawyers on both sides said Thursday.

A jury Wednesday acquitted Ricky Chavis, 41, of kidnapping and 10 counts of le'wd or lascivious battery but convicted him of false imprisonment. A judge immediately sentenced Chavis to five years in prison, the maximum. He could have received life for kidnapping and 15 years on each of the le'wd or lascivious charges.

The verdict hinged on Alex's testimony that he and Chavis repeatedly performed oral s'ex on each other when the boy was 12. Alex, now 13, claimed it happened during the months before he and his brother, now 14, bludgeoned their father on Nov. 26, 2001, at their home in nearby Cantonment.

"He was not a good witness," prosecutor David Rimmer acknowledged. "He was vague. He was evasive."

The boys had run away from home 10 days before the murder and were staying with Chavis while their father, Terry King, 40, searched for them. In a pretrial interview with lawyers, Alex said Chavis made posters their father distributed during his search, but on the witness stand he couldn't recall that.

Alex also was unable to remember certain physical details about Chavis in the interview or on the stand.

"He's unbelievable and he should be unbelievable," said Michael Rollo, Chavis' lawyer. "He's a liar and he's been a liar from the beginning."

Under cross-examination, both boys admitted they lied under oath before a grand jury and at two other trials in an attempt to frame Chavis for the murder. Last year, separate juries acquitted Chavis of first-degree murder and convicted the King brothers of second-degree murder without a weapon.

Circuit Judge Frank Bell overturned the boys' convictions and ordered mediation that resulted in their guilty pleas to third-degree murder. Alex is serving seven years and Derek eight years in separate juveniles facilities.

"The boys' lack of credibility, I think that's the main problem we ran into," said Escambia County sheriff's investigator John Sanderson, who worked the case. "Personally, I have a problem with their credibility."

Rimmer tried to overcome the credibility gap with corroborating evidence including records that showed Chavis had been convicted of molesting two boys 20 years ago. One of the victims and another man testified they had oral s'ex with Chavis when they were teens. The prosecutor also introduced love letters Alex had written to and about Chavis.

"There really wasn't any evidence that he lied about the s'exual abuse," Rimmer said.

Chavis is facing another trial Feb. 24 on charges of being an accessory after the fact to murder and evidence tampering. He has admitted to investigators that he picked up the boys after the killing, took them to his Pensacola home, washed their clothing and hid them from police.

Rollo and Rimmer discussed a possible plea bargain on those charges. After Wednesday's verdict the prosecutor was in no mood to cut a deal unless Chavis pleads guilty and throws himself on the court's mercy. Rollo said he would advise his client against that.

If that case goes to trial, Rimmer said he does not plan to call Derek or Alex as witnesses.