Lambing asks for new lawyers
A Butler man charged with killing a 4-year-old child in March 2017 asked Butler County’s president judge Friday for different lawyers.
Keith Jordan Lambing, 21, presented a list of four reasons to Judge Thomas Doerr explaining why he should be reassigned new public defenders. Doerr said he’d take Lambing’s request into consideration and respond next week.
The reasons included not getting physical copies of test results, such as a DNA test, from the crime investigation, a belief that his current defense does not have his “best interests in mind,” his deteriorating relationship with his attorneys and a belief that his attorneys are biased against him.
Lambing faces charges of first-degree homicide, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with serious bodily injury, rape of a child and other charges related to the death of 4-year-old Bentley Thomas Miller at the Super 8 Motel on Route 8 in Butler Township.
Lambing was flanked in court Friday by his attorneys, chief public defender Kevin Flaherty and assistant public defender Charles Nedz.
Flaherty told Doerr that Lambing had requested that they withdraw from the case in correspondence, and that Lambing had repeated himself in meetings with the attorneys.
“He wanted us to file this motion of withdrawal,” Flaherty said.
After the hearing, both attorneys confirmed that their client is not attempting to represent himself, but rather just wants different public defenders.
Flaherty said after the hearing that cases of this nature tend to take a long time to proceed, and that Lambing is likely feeling frustrated by the pace.
The test results in question have been told to Lambing, but he is protesting because he hasn’t been given physical copies of the investigation documents, Flaherty said.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for Lambing.
