{Paducah, Kentucky}...The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati has set an October 10th hearing date to consider whether 29 year old Michael Adam Carneal waited too long to try and withdraw his guilty plea to killing three classmates and wounding five when he took guns to school and opened fire on a prayer group at Heath High School near Paducah on December 1, 1997. Carneal was then 14 years old. A federal judge in Paducah ruled in August 2011 that Carneal could have moved sooner to pull back the guilty plea, but Carneal's attorneys say he wasn't mentally competent to plead guilty or withdraw the plea within the proscribed time limits. Carneal is serving life in prison with a chance at parole after 25 years.
