One of the state's most notorious killers is back in Boise for a court hearing.
Joseph Edward Duncan III is in solitary confinement at the Ada County Jail, where he arrived Thursday about noon. U.S. marshals transported him on a private plane from a federal prison in the Seattle area.
Duncan, 49, is on federal death row for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a northern Idaho boy. At issue is whether the five-time convicted killer was competent when he waived his right to appeal his death sentences, which a federal jury imposed in August 2008 after a three-week trial in Boise.
Hope the court gets this right. Duncan knows exactly what he is doing now and then.