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Edward T. Kendrick III listens Friday at the Hamilton County Court’s Building as his attorney questions a witness during their attempt to get a new trial for Kendrick. Kendrick was convicted of murdering his wife in 1994.The children of a man convicted in a 1994 murder trial have different impressions of how multiple hearings for him went this week.
Whitley Evans, 21, daughter of Edward T. Kendrick III, said she thinks the hearings on Monday, Thursday and Friday moved her father closer to his goal of a new trial.
But Endia Kendrick, 21, and Edward Kendrick, 20, whose mother the elder Kendrick was convicted of killing, said the week’s events made them more confident their father would stay in jail for the rest of his life.
That’s the sentence given by a Hamilton County jury that convicted him in 1994 of first-degree murder. Kendrick has appealed his conviction multiple times, with mixed success.
Hamilton County Criminal Court Judge Don Poole scheduled further hearings in the case for Feb. 21.