Nov. 12--The Chicago Tribune Media Group's Gary Post-Tribune reports:
Despite a judge's order allowing a suspect in a police officer's killing to have access to the law library in the Lake County (Ind.) Jail, one of his attorneys said his client Carl Le'Ellis Blount has yet to visit there.
Blount, 26, is being held in the July 6 killing of Gary police Patrolman Jeffrey Westerfield, 47.
Defense attorney Rich Wolter said Wednesday during a brief court hearing that for four weeks his client has been told by jail personnel that he will be allowed to use the law library, but it still hasn't happened.
In addition, Wolter said that his client, who is housed in a one-person cell in the jail, is not allowed access to any paper, which makes it difficult for Wolter and co-counsel Robert Varga and Thomas Vanes to keep Blount up to speed with the case and its voluminous records.
Read more at The Gary Post-Tribune.
