Florida ‘Killer Clown’: Judge rejects defense’s bid to release Sheila Keen-Warren pending murder trial

A Florida judge has rejected protection attorneys’ bids for accused “Killer Clown” Sheila Keen-Warren to be free of jail pending trial, and for prosecutors to be sanctioned for his or her dealing with of the case, courtroom information present. 

Keen-Warren, the lady accused of gunning down her husband’s former spouse in late May 1990 whereas dressed as a clown, will stay behind bars as she awaits trial many years after the alleged murder. Florida Circuit Judge Scott Suskauer on Friday acknowledged “the delays in this case, especially the most recent delays attributable to the State,” however rejected the protection’s movement for Keen-Warren’s pre-trial release. 

In the movement – the protection’s second push for Keen-Warren’s release pending trial – legal professional Greg Rosenfeld argued that his shopper has spent 5 years in jail as she awaits trial.

“Ms. Keen-Warren is presumed to be innocent,” he wrote. “She should not be punished and should not have to sit in jail pretrial, because the State repeatedly fails to follow the law.” 

Sheila Keen Warren, proper, seems in courtroom for a pre-trial listening to Monday morning, Nov. 13, 2017. Keen Warren is going through fees within the demise of Marlene Warren in 1990. 
(Lannis Waters/Palm Beach Post/Tribune News Service through Getty Images)

Rosenfeld as a substitute sought home arrest with restrictions. On Tuesday, he advised Fox News Digital his shopper “is not guilty.”

“She did not commit this crime,” he wrote in an emailed assertion. “The defense team will continue to fight and Ms. Keen-Warren is looking forward to having her day in court.”

Marlene Warren, 40, was shot and killed at her Wellington, Florida, house on Saturday, May 26, 1990, officers have mentioned. She had simply completed breakfast together with her son and his pals round 10:45 a.m. when they noticed the automobile roll into the driveway, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office mentioned.

Photo exhibits Marlene Warren, who was shot and killed within the entryway of her Wellington, Florida, house within the notorious ‘Killer Clown’ case of 1990.
(Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office)

An individual who was allegedly carrying a pink nostril, an orange-haired wig and face paint exited the sedan and walked to the house’s entrance door, police mentioned. 

“The person dressed as the clown was carrying a flower arrangement and two balloons,” the sheriff’s workplace went on. One balloon reportedly bore an image of Snow White, the opposite was emblazoned with the phrases, “You’re the Greatest!” 

“Marlene answered the front door and as the clown offered the items to her, witnesses heard a gunshot and Marlene fell to the ground,” police said. “The person dressed as a clown calmly walked back to the LeBaron and drove away.” 

Warren suffered a gunshot wound to the face and was rushed to a neighborhood hospital, the place she died two days later. 

Police arrested Keen-Warren 27 years later, on Sept. 26, 2017. 

Investigators realized Keen-Warren, who was married to another person on the time of the murder, went on to wed Marlene’s husband, Michael Warren, in 2002. The pair had been dwelling in Tennessee, the place they operated a restaurant, police mentioned. 

A grand jury voted on Aug. 31, 2017, to cost Keen-Warren with Marlene’s murder. Police then tracked her to Washington County, Virginia, the place they arrested her with out incident. She was 54 on the time. 

In Friday’s newest rulings, Suskauer additional rejected Rosenfeld’s push for sanctions in opposition to prosecutors, who produced a “clown sighting file” — simply eight days earlier than Keen-Warren was scheduled to go to trial, and regardless of earlier claims that no such paperwork existed. 

Paramedics take Marlene Warren to an ambulance on May 26, 1990, after she was shot in entrance of her house in Wellington, Fla. 
(Mark Randall/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service through Getty Images)

The 25-page file incorporates information associated to different experiences of clown sightings within the space on the time of Warren’s slaying, courtroom information present. It allegedly consists of the names and call information associated for “roughly 40 credible” clown-sighting leads from across the time of the murder. 

Rosenfeld argued that prosecutors “failed to disclose” extra particulars of exculpatory proof, together with interviews with a person who allegedly confessed to the murder. 

Suskauer dominated Friday that prosecutors’ and legislation enforcements’ delay in producing the file was not “willful conduct,” courtroom information state. 

No new trial date has been set.