Killer of Ladue Student in South Carolina Wants Conviction Thrown Out

The Associated Press is reporting that a convicted man on death row in South Carolina for the killing of Ladue student Tiffany Souers at Clemson University in May, 2006 wants his sentence thrown out. He is appealing to the South Carolina Supreme Court to throw out his sentence  because he claims prosecutors intimidated one of his key witnesses.

Lawyers for Jerry Buck Inman, 40 will ask the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to toss out his guilty plea and death sentence. Police in Clemson, S.C. said Inman broke into Soeur’s apartment near the campus and raped and strangled her to death. The engineering student was discovered by her apartment roommate.

The Associated Press is reporting that much of Inman’s appeal is centered around statements from social worker Marti Loring of Atlanta, who was supposed to testify at sentencing hearings following his September 2008 plea. Loring had been scheduled to discuss abuse Inman supposedly suffered growing up and his mental problems.

Loring was not licensed in the state of South Carolina, and during questioning about her credentials, Solicitor Bob Arial suggested she could face charges for practicing without a license in Inman’s case and other cases she worked on in the state.

Here is an article from the original court case in 2006.