CARO SAYS HE'LL FIGHT COUNTY'S SALE PLAN.Byline: Staff and Wire Services The ex-husband of convicted murderer Cora Caro said Wednesday he will fight Ventura County's efforts to auction the Camarillo home where the couple's three sons were killed in an attempt to recoup recoup To sell an asset at a price sufficient to recover the original outlay or to offset a previous loss. $330,000 spent by the public defender's office during her trial. Sheriff Bob Brooks' decision to hold the auction is ``almost beyond human imagination,'' said Dr. Xavier Caro, whose ex-wife was sentenced to death last year for murdering three of their young sons in November 1999. Caro called it ``insanity insanity, mental disorder of such severity as to render its victim incapable of managing his affairs or of conforming to social standards. Today, the term insanity is used chiefly in criminal law, to denote mental aberrations or defects that may relieve a person from , almost surreal'' that the county is trying to force him to reimburse re·im·burse tr.v. re·im·bursed, re·im·burs·ing, re·im·burs·es 1. To repay (money spent); refund. 2. To pay back or compensate (another party) for money spent or losses incurred. the cost of public defenders public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was who, as part of their trial strategy, claimed he was to blame for Cora Caro's actions. He said he and his surviving son Gabriel, now 4, have been living in the hilltop mansion since December and are trying to salvage the good memories they had there. The case's unusual circumstances stem from a Superior Court judge's ruling before Cora Caro's trial that under California community property law she was not entitled to assets to hire an attorney to defend her. The Public Defender's Office then took over her case and the tab came to $329,382.96. After she was convicted of the November 1999 killings, another judge ruled that Cora Caro indeed had the assets to pay the bill, namely the couple's 4,800-square-foot home on Presilla Road. The county then obtained a lien. Xavier Caro's lawyer, Keith Sipprelle, said the county should have sought a court order and appraised the home before going forward. He said he will ask a judge to forbid for·bid tr.v. for·bade or for·bad , for·bid·den or for·bid, for·bid·ding, for·bids 1. To command (someone) not to do something: I forbid you to go. 2. the auction. Assistant County Counsel Matthew Smith Matthew Smith may refer to:
The public defender's office ``was not established for the purpose of defending wealthy people,'' he said. |
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