KERRY STEIGERWALT KUSI-TV APPEARANCE
SHEDS LIGHT ON CHELSEA KING MURDER CASE
SAN DIEGO: Prominent local defense attorney Kerry Steigerwalt provided legal perspective today in the high-profile case of a Riverside County man accused of murdering a Poway teen-age girl who disappeared while jogging in Rancho Bernardo.
Steigerwalt was interviewed by KUSI 9News Anchor/Reporter Ross Becker outside the San Diego County Hall of Justice, near where John Gardner III, a convicted sex offender from Lake Elsinore was arraigned on charges that could lead to the death penalty.
The interview was broadcast live on KUSI’s “Good Morning San Diego” show.
Gardner is accused of raping and murdering Chelsea King, a straight-A student and cross-country runner from Poway High School who never came home after going for a run Feb. 25 near Lake Hodges in Rancho Bernardo Community Park.
Steigerwalt explained the legal details of an arraignment, at which prosecutors file documents that contain their allegations of what crimes were committed.
Defendants usually either have appearances on their behalf by hired defense attorneys or have a public defender appointed to represent them.
Gardner was arrested three days later at a Lake Hodges restaurant. King’s body was found March 2 in a shallow grave in brushy area a few yards off the lake shoreline.
Steigerwalt told the television audience the fact that Gardner was arrested before the girl’s body was found indicates that police “had a theory supported by evidence for arresting him that Sunday.”
Steigerwalt, who has appeared as a commentator on high-profile cases on many local and national television shows, also was a nightly television commentator on the David Westerfield case in 2002.
In a trial that drew nationwide attention, Steigerwalt provided in-depth legal context for viewers who watched a case unfold in which Westerfield eventually was convicted and sentenced to death for kidnapping and murdering his seven-year-old neighbor, Danielle Van Dam.
Steigerwalt is the managing partner of Kerry Steigerwalt’s Pacific Law Center and has built his career through a string of high-profile cases, including death penalty cases, over two decades. He has become one of the region’s most sought-after defense lawyers and is a common contributor to local and national media, offering insight into legal cases through his decades of experience in the courtroom. He has appeared on such television shows as “48 Hours,” “Court TV,” “The O’Reilly Factor” and Fox News as well as numerous other media outlets.
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