Posted on 08/26/2003 5:53:52 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP
Man on death row could face new sex charges02:04 PM CDT on Tuesday, August 26, 2003
A man serving time for the 1993 abduction-murder of a Plano girl snatched from a soccer field may face new charges of molesting children before an appeals court rules whether his death sentence should be carried out.
Acting on information culled from media interviews given by Michael Blair in the last year, Collin County authorities said Tuesday that they filed three charges with Dallas prosecutors that involved two additional victims of the admitted pedophile.
“We initiated the investigation because we became aware of possible victims through the media,” said Greg Davis, Collin County’s first assistant dictrict attorney. “And we felt an obligation to speak with potential victims and determine if any additional offenses had been committed my Mr. Blair.”
Philip Wischkaemper, Mr. Blair’s appeals attorney, said the newest charges don’t come as a shock, since learning that prosecutors interviewed his client earlier this year.
“It doesn’t surprise me,” Mr. Wischkaemper said. “I knew (prosecutors) were looking at this. But they haven’t been in contact with me.
Ashley Estell disappeared in September 1993 from a Plano soccer field, where she and her family were watching a tournament. Her body was found the next day beside an isolated road six miles from where she was abducted. The case prompted "Ashley's Laws," a package of sexual-predator measures in Texas requiring longer prison terms and public registration for sex offenders.
Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/localnews/stories/082603dnmetblair.44b9fe64.html
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