{Louisville, Kentucky}...Kathleen Schmidt, the attorney for Kentucky death row inmate Kevin Wayne Dunlap, has filed a brief with the Kentucky Supreme Court claiming Dunlap does not have a right frontal lobe, which controls impulses and decision making, leaving her client incompetent. Dunlap was sentenced to death in 2010 after he pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing 5 year old Ethan Frensley, 17 year old Kayla Williams and 14 year old Kortney Frensley when they returned home from school in October 2008 and then burning their house in Roaring Springs near Fort Campbell. Earlier in the day, Dunlap had tied up their mother, Kristy Frensley, then raped and attempted to stab her to death before setting their house on fire, but Frensley escaped by rolling out the back door. Dunlap initially asked to plead guilty, but mentally ill. Livingston County Circuit Judge C.A. Woodall rejected the request after reviewing evidence in the case and accepted a guilty plea with no conditions. He later followed a jury's recommendation and sentenced Dunlap to death. The high court will hear Dunlap's appeal August 16th in Frankfort. Prosecutors told the court that doctors determined Dunlap was competent to stand trial.
