The attorney representing an Ohio father who allegedly confessed to killing his three sons execution-style is trying to block his “entire interrogation,” claiming police violated his constitutional rights “from the beginning.”
Chad Doerman, 32, was arrested and charged with three counts of aggravated murder on June 15, when Clermont County sheriff’s deputies found him sitting on his front porch steps in Monroe Township with a rifle by his side — and his three sons, age. 3, 4 and 7, died of gunshot wounds in the back of the house.
He was still handcuffed when deputies began questioning him, defense attorneys allege in a new court filing, which asserts that two senior detectives “joined forces to exploit Mr. Doerman’s ignorance of the law, apparent confusion and mental issues to produce constitutionally tainted statements from him.”
It claims that the detective read Doerman his rights and asked him if he understood them.
“Doerman answered ‘yes’ and nodded in agreement,” read the court filing, obtained by The Post.
“Mr. Doerman was never presented with a written copy of his rights,” it continued. “The detective never asked Mr. Doerman if he wanted to waive those rights; he never asked Mr. Doerman to sign the waiver; he never got a waiver. which is constitutionally valid for that right.”
Defense attorneys representing Chad Doerman, 32, want to block his “entire interrogation,” claiming police violated his constitutional rights “from the very beginning.” WLWT5
About five minutes later, Doerman allegedly asked for a lawyer.
“I’ll wait for the lawyer, I really don’t know,” he said in response to one of the detective’s questions, according to the interrogation video referenced in the court filing.
“Give me a few days and let me talk to a lawyer so I can get a nice, clean answer.”
But court filings allege that detectives ignored the request, and continued to question him without a lawyer for three hours.
“The burden is not on Mr. Doerman to understand how his demand for a lawyer triggered the detective’s duty to stop the interrogation; nor was it a burden on Mr. Doerman to resist the detective’s attempts to get him to talk,” the court filing said.
He also accused the sheriff’s deputy of threatening him and even calling him a “monster”.
Clermont County sheriff’s deputies found Doerman sitting on her front porch steps in Monroe Township with a rifle by her side on June 15, before finding her son dead of a gunshot wound in the backyard. WLWT5
Defense attorneys also tried to suppress any conversations or statements Doerman made to medical professionals while officers were present.
They allege that when Doerman met with mental health liaisons at the Clermont County Jail, deputies were “actively present by entering Mr. Doerman’s jail cell with his health care provider for some of these privileged communications and recording them” on officer-worn body cameras. .
But Doerman’s mental state at the time “was such that he could not have made a knowing, intelligent or voluntary consent to the police to attend if he was asked.”
“He was in no condition to object to their presence,” the filing said.
Doerman’s father, Keith, previously told The Post that his son “just snapped.” Facebook/Chad Doerman
While he was being questioned about his son’s death, Doerman allegedly admitted to lining up his three young sons and killing them with a rifle in their home — as his terrified daughter, Alexis, ran away, screaming that he “killed everybody.”
Doerman also allegedly admitted that he had been planning the execution for eight months, according to WLWT.
But Doerman’s father, Keith, previously told The Post that his son “just snapped.”
“There was something going on in his life that he couldn’t handle anymore,” he said.
The father also insisted that his son had no history of mental illness or strange behavior or criminal record.
Doerman is being held on $20 million bond.
A hearing to consider a motion to dismiss his questioning is scheduled for February 2, and the trial of his case is expected to begin in July.
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