This week’s election has produced a shakeup in a capital murder case in south central Kentucky.
Nearly three years after a young Allen County girl was brutally murdered, a new prosecutor is joining the case.
Clint Willis, the commonwealth’s attorney for Allen and Simpson counties, was defeated in Tuesday’s election by Franklin lawyer Corey Morgan.
Willis built the case against Timothy Madden after he was charged in the November 14, 2015 death of seven-year-old Gabbi Doolin.
Morgan has past experience as the assistant county attorney in Barren County. He currently specializes in criminal defense and says that could be advantageous in prosecuting the Madden case.
"I think that will help me a lot, not just this case, but all all my cases because I have, in fact, defended a lot of cases in the past that are high profile," Morgan told WKU Public Radio.
However, this is Morgan’s first death penalty case.
The Madden case has faced multiple delaysin going to trial over the past three years, but Morgan says he has every intention to get the case before a jury next fall. The trial is currently is set for September 4, 2019.
A call placed to Willis was not returned. Morgan will be sworn into office on December 31.
