Carnel Chamberlain -- Found Deceased 6/28/12

http://www.sagchip.org/publicrelations/images/2012/2012-0625-CarnelChamberlainNewsRelease.pdf

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Tribe has PR

Charges come day after missing child’s body found
by Lauren Amstutz
Posted: 06.29.2012 at 6:44 PM

While the FBI continues to piece together this case, construction workers who have been roofing next door may be key witnesses in the investigation.

Anthony Gardner, a contractor says, "On Wednesday we heard a lot of arguing. I didn't think much of it; I wish I would have now."

He says other crew members smelled something burning last Thursday. They said it smelled different, like flesh. They have been interviewed by investigators several times.

http://www.upnorthlive.com/news/story.aspx?id=771273#.UBtXjY7dLBI

Kevin Chamberlain, Carnel Chamberlain's cousin, speaks out on culture of abuse
http://www.sourcenewspapers.com/articles/2012/08/13/news/doc502919f833c55058308101.txt?viewmode=4

Very great article, very enlightening

Federal courts vs state courts: What gets tried where

By SUSAN FIELD
Posted: 09/22/12 08:03 pm

Anthony Bennett was in enough trouble before he was ordered last week to stand trial for allegedly assaulting a corrections officer.

Bennett, who has been in the Bay County Jail since his arrest for suspected child abuse in June, is accused of assaulting 4-year-old Carnel Chamberlain, whose remains were found under the porch of the home in Isabella County where Bennett lived with the boy’s mother.

Not yet charged in Carnel’s death, Bennett was indicted by a federal grand jury in U.S. District Court in Bay City.

Read more:

http://www.themorningsun.com/article/20120922/NEWS01/120929902/federal-courts-vs-state-courts-what-gets-tried-where

Anthony Bennett, man charged with assaulting deceased 4-year-old Carnel Chamberlain, scheduled for federal and state trials on the same day

By Cole Waterman | cwaterma@mlive.com The Bay City Times
on October 15, 2012 at 1:00 PM, updated October 15, 2012 at 1:04 PM

BAY CITY, MI — Anthony M. Bennett, the Mount Pleasant man charged with abusing 4-year-old Carnel Chamberlain a month before his remains were discovered, has state and federal trials before him, but the question is which will happen first.

In federal court, the 20-year-old Bennett is to go to trial on Nov. 27 on a charge of assault resulting in substantial bodily injury to a child younger than 16, a five-year felony. On the state level, Bennett is scheduled to face a trial in Bay County Circuit Court on the same day on two counts each of assaulting a prison employee and assaulting, resisting or obstructing police and one count of malicious destruction of property between $200 and $1,000.

“I would imagine the federal case would proceed first,” said Bay County Prosecutor Kurt C. Asbury.

Read more:

http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2012/10/anthony_bennett_man_charged_wi_4.html

Suspect indicted in Carnel Chamberlain murder

By SUSAN FIELD
Posted: 11/07/12 02:49 pm
Updated: 11/07/12 03:18 pm


Anthony Bennett is pictured in an undated file photo. Bennett has been charged with abusing Carnel Chamberlaiin, whose burned body was found at the home Bennett shared with the boy and Carnel's mother at 7340 E. Tomah Road.

A federal grand jury on Wednesday indicted the man long suspected of killing 4-year-old Carnel Chamberlain in June.

Already facing abuse charges against the boy, Anthony Michael Bennett, 20, is charged in U.S. District Court in Bay City with first-degree murder.

A seven-count superseding indictment charges Bennett, who is accused of killing Carnel at his mother’s Tomah Road home on the Isabella Reservation, with killing Carnel while abusing him on June 21, according to U.S. Attorney spokeswoman Gina Balaya.

Read more:

http://www.themorningsun.com/article/20121107/NEWS01/121109776/suspect-indicted-in-carnel-chamberlain-murder

Man indicted in child's death on Indian reservation

6:25 PM, November 7, 2012

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Bennett is charged with first-degree murder, assault of a child, assault with a dangerous weapon, animal cruelty and witness tampering.

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Bennett was charged with an earlier assault on the boy, a key step that kept him in custody while authorities developed the murder case against him. The FBI and federal prosecutors investigate crimes committed on American Indian land.

"The tribal community has waited for quite some time for this to occur, and now we can begin our journey toward justice," Tribal Council member Louanna Bruner said.

Read more:

http://www.freep.com/article/20121107/NEWS06/121107063/Man-indicted-death-boy-s-death-Indian-reservation

Anthony Bennett pleads 'not guilty' in Carnel Chamberlain death

by Jane Park
Posted: 11.13.2012 at 10:11 PM
Updated: 11.14.2012 at 11:20 AM

BAY CITY -- A judge has entered a not guilty plea for a man at his arraignment in federal court in the death of a 4-year-old boy whose charred remains were found on a Saginaw Chippwa Indian reservation.

Anthony Bennett has been in custody on another charge since Carnel Chamberlain's remains were found June 28 at a home on the Saginaw Chippewa Indian reservation, about 70 miles north of Lansing. He was living with Carnel and the boy's mother.

A Nov. 7 grand jury indictment charges him with first-degree murder, assaulting a child, assault with a dangerous weapon, animal cruelty and witness tampering.

Bennett stood mute Tuesday at his appearance in Bay City federal court. He remains jailed, and his next court date is Nov. 27.

http://www.minbcnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=825076

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Jury trial for Anthony Bennett, man charged with killing 4-year-old Carnel Chamberlain, set for April

By Brad Devereaux | bdeverea@mlive.com The Saginaw News
on November 27, 2012 at 8:40 PM, updated November 28, 2012 at 1:27 AM

BAY CITY, MI — A jury will decide the fate of Anthony Bennett, the man charged with killing 4-year-old Carnel Chamberlain on the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Reservation in Mount Pleasant, beginning in April, according to court documents filed Tuesday, Nov. 27.

View Document (pdf)

Magistrate Judge Charles E. Binder signed the order to schedule the jury trial to begin on April 23, 2013, at 8:30 AM before District Judge Thomas L. Ludington.

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Motions in the case are due by March 8, 2013, and a plea hearing is set for March 21 before Magistrate Judge Binder.

The final pretrial conference is set for March 26 before District Judge Thomas L. Ludington, according to court documents.

Read more:

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2012/11/jury_trial_for_anthony_bennett.html

Chamberlain to testify against others in Emmet County

By SUSAN FIELD@sfield_msun
Posted: Thursday, 01/03/13 11:21 am
Updated: Thursday, 01/03/13 09:46 pm



Jaimee Chamberlain, charged in Emmet County with several drug offenses, has agreed to testify against two others accused of selling drugs to undercover police officers.

Chamberlain, the mother of 4-year-old Carnel, who was murdered in June, pleaded guilty on Monday to possession of marijuana.

She agreed to testify against Jade Pelcher, 21, and Nicholas Bonstelle, 22, who were arrested with her near Petoskey in December, Emmet County Prosecutor James R. Linderman said.

Read more:

http://www.themorningsun.com/article/20130103/NEWS01/130109894/chamberlain-to-testify-against-others-in-emmet-county

Mount Pleasant home, where Carnel Chamberlain's body found, moved

By Brad Devereaux | bdeverea@mlive.com The Saginaw News
on January 03, 2013 at 5:30 PM, updated January 03, 2013 at 7:44 PM

MOUNT PLEASANT, MI — The house where 4-year-old Carnel Chamberlain lived has been removed from the property at 7340 E. Tomah.

Chamberlain's body was found underneath the porch of the home on June 28, 2012, one week after he was reported missing.

The house was split in half and taken away on a flatbed truck on Wednesday, Jan. 2, Chamberlain family spokesman Kevin Chamberlain said.

Read more:

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2013/01/house_at_site_of_carnel_chambe.html

Anthony Bennett, charged with first-degree murder in death of 4-year-old, to have plea hearing

By Cole Waterman| cwaterma@mlive.com
The Bay City Times
on March 20, 2013 at 11:25 AM
updated March 20, 2013 at 11:33 AM

BAY CITY, MI — The Mount Pleasant man charged federally with killing a 4-year-old boy has a day to decide whether or not he’ll take a plea.

U.S. District Magistrate Judge Charles E. Binder is to preside over a plea hearing for Anthony M. Bennett at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 21, at the federal courthouse in downtown Bay City. Bennett, a member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe who turned 21 on Monday, March 11, is charged with seven counts — first-degree murder, assault resulting in substantial bodily injury, assault within special maritime or territorial jurisdiction, assault with a dangerous weapon, animal cruelty and two counts of tampering with a witness, victim or informant.

The hearing does not mean Bennett is entering a guilty or contest plea, just that it is the last possible day for him to enter such a plea before the case goes to trial. The Times has been unable to contact federal prosecutors or defense attorney Anthony T. Chambers to determine the likelihood of Bennett entering a plea or if a plea offer has been made.

Read more:

http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2013/03/anthony_bennett_charged_with_f.html

Trial set for end of April for Mt. Pleasant man accused of killing child

By Susan Field
Posted: Friday, 03/22/13 11:49 am

An Isabella County man accused of murdering a 4-year-old boy is headed for trial next month.

Thursday marked the deadline for a plea agreement in U.S. District Court in Bay City for Anthony Michael Bennett, 21, of Chippewa Township.

Bennett is charged with the June 21 first-degree murder of Carnel Chamberlain, whose remains were found under the porch at his mother’s Tomah Road home a week later.

Bennett and Carnel’s mother, Jaimee Chamberlain, shared the home.

Bennett’s trial begins April 23 at 8:30 a.m. in U.S. District Judge Thomas L. Ludington’s Bay City courtroom.

Read more:

http://www.macombdaily.com/article/20130322/NEWS03/130329841/trial-set-for-end-of-april-for-mt-pleasant-man-accused-of-killing-child

Freckles wrote:Carnel Chamberlain


Trial of Anthony Bennett delayed after lawyer gets 180 day suspension
by NBC25 Newsroom

"... Bennett, a member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, is accused of beating, dismembering, burning, and burying his girlfriend's son, Carnel Chamberlain. ..."

http://www.minbcnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=888569


" ... Bennett is accused of assaulting Carnel Chamberlain prior to his death. Chamerlain was allegededly in Bennett's care the day he went missing near Mt. Pleasant on the Saginaw Chippewa Reservation...."

http://www.minbcnews.com/neighborhood/story.aspx?id=776997

Thank you, Freckles!

Anthony Bennett, charged in death of 4-year-old, gets new lawyer after previous one suspended from practicing law

By Cole Waterman | The Bay City Times
on April 26, 2013 at 11:25 AM, updated April 26, 2013 at 12:18 PM

BAY CITY, MI — Anthony M. Bennett, the Mount Pleasant man charged with killing his girlfriend's 4-year-old son, has a new attorney, due to his previous one being temporarily suspended from practicing law.

The Michigan Attorney Discipline Board on Monday, April 22, ruled Anthony T. Chambers' license to practice law be suspended for 180 days. A hearing panel ruled that Chambers, who practices out of Detroit, neglected several legal matters.

Read more:

http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2013/04/anthony_bennett_charged_in_dea.html

Trial delay for man in reservation death of boy, 4

Posted: May 29, 2013 7:27 PM CDT
Updated: May 29, 2013 7:27 PM CDT

BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) - A federal judge in Bay City has delayed the trial of a man in the death of a 4-year-old boy whose badly burned remains were discovered buried on the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Reservation.

Twenty-1-year-old Anthony Bennett was set for trial this spring in last year's killing of Carnel Chamberlain.

Judge Thomas L. Ludington delayed the trial until Jan. 14 after Bennett's previous lawyer had his law license suspended and John A. Shea took over the defense.

Bennett faces first-degree murder, assault and other charges.

Read more:

http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/22452476/trial-delay-for-man-in-reservation-death-of-boy-4#ixzz2UqBoF0FB

One year later: Carnel Chamberlain's family waits for remains, plants memorial tree

Posted: Jun 21, 2013 10:31 PM CDT
Updated: Jun 21, 2013 10:43 PM CDT

By Andrew Keller, Multimedia Journalist

MT. PLEASANT, MI (WNEM) - The murder scene is now an empty lot. The porch and home that hid Carnel Chamberlain's remains for a week are gone. But the memory of the four-year-old won't soon be forgotten.

"As we held hands around this tree, this is all we got right now. This is all we can have right now," said Kevin Chamberlain, a member of Carnel's family.

Friday, a tree planted will help carry on his Carnel's memory. The Red Oak will be planted on this exact spot with the exact soil that covered Carnel's body. The Red Oak is expected to grow to be about 80' tall, and the family says as it matures, so does Carnel in spirit.

(Video at link)

Read more:

http://www.wnem.com/story/22659584/one-year-later-carnel-chamberlains-family-waits-for-remains-plants-tree

Man charged with death of boy, 4, on Indian reservation wants to move trial

6:19 AM, July 19, 2013
Associated Press

A man charged with killing a 4-year-old boy on an Indian reservation in central Michigan wants to move his trial to federal court in Detroit.

An attorney for Anthony Bennett says there's been too much negative publicity about the case. John Shea says Bennett is unlikely to get a fair jury in Bay City federal court because the public could be "poisoned" against him.

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Bennett's trial is scheduled for January. It's not known when Judge Thomas Ludington will rule on the request to move it.

Read more:

http://www.freep.com/article/20130719/NEWS06/307190036/Man-charged-with-death-of-boy-4-wants-to-move-trial

I'm sorry but Detroit filed Bankruptcy, so how are they going to afford a trial like this? I just heard it cost the city of Sanford around $35,000 just to put up the jury for GZ's trial. If they have to sequester this jury, they will be fed PB&J sammiches.

Prosecutors oppose moving Anthony Bennett trial

By MARK RANZENBERGER, The Morning Sun

Posted: Tuesday, 07/30/13 04:34 pm
Updated: Tuesday, 07/30/13 08:44 pm

Federal prosecutors say there’s no need to move the trial of the man accused of killing a 4-year-old Mt. Pleasant boy in 2012.

The attorney for Anthony Michael Bennett argued in court documents that there’s been too much negative publicity about the case. Bennett, 21, is charged with killing Carnel Chamberlain, whose burned remains were found buried last summer outside the boy’s home on Tomah Road on the Isabella Reservation.

Lawyer John Shea of Ann Arbor says Bennett is unlikely to get a fair jury in Bay City federal court because the public could be “poisoned” against him. Shea asked U.S. District Judge Thomas Ludington to move the case to Detroit.

Read more:

http://www.themorningsun.com/article/20130730/NEWS01/130739972/prosecutors-oppose-moving-anthony-bennett-trial

Judge to decide on Bennett change of venue

Posted: Tuesday, 08/13/13 01:35 pm
Updated: Tuesday, 08/13/13 01:56 pm

By SUSAN FIELD, The Morning Sun

A federal judge will determine whether an Isabella County man facing a murder charge will be tried in Bay City or another location.

United States District Judge Thomas L. Ludington cancelled a hearing that was set for Tuesday in Bay City to hear prosecutors and Anthony Bennett’s defense attorney argue their cases.

Ludington said legal paperwork filed by assistant U.S. attorneys Roy Kranz and Craig Wininger, and Bennett’s Ann Arbor-based defense attorney, John Shea, were sufficient for him to make a decision.

Read more:

http://www.themorningsun.com/article/20130813/NEWS01/130819833/judge-to-decide-on-bennett-change-of-venue

Federal judge rules Anthony Bennett, charged in 4-year-old's death, to face trial in Bay City
Sept 4, 2013


"Nowhere among the media sources Bennett identifies, although not containing glowing reports of his contributions to society, is there blatantly prejudicial 'evidence of the smoking-gun variety,'" Ludington's opinion states. "The Court is confident individuals in the Northern Division are capable of impartially assessing the evidence to be presented in this case. An impartial jury of 12 can be found among the available 866,000 individuals."


http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2013/09/federal_judge_rules_anthony_be.html

Bennett's lawyer wants murder charge dropped, calls it 'unconstitutionally vague'

by Anne Cook
October 23, 2013
Posted: 2 hrs, 33 mins ago

BAY CITY -- The lawyer for Anthony Bennett, the Isabella County man accused of killing 4-year-old Carnel Chamberlain wants the murder charge dropped.

Bennett's attorney, John Shea, filed a motion seeking dismissal of the charge claiming the grand jury indictment is "unconstitutionally vague" and that it violates Bennett's due process right to "adequate notice as to what constitutes the offense."

According to Shea, the indictment against Bennett alleges three different theories of first-degree murder: that it was premeditated, that it was allegedly committed while Bennett was abusing the child, which makes it felony murder, and that it was committed as a part of a pattern of prior assault.

Shea said he is challenging the third theory.

Read more:

http://www.upnorthlive.com/news/story.aspx?id=962164

Prosecutor answers Bennett motion

By SUSAN FIELD, The Morning Sun
Posted: 10/31/13, 12:20 PM EDT

An Isabella County man accused of killing a 4-year-old boy last year should stand trial despite his attorney trying to get a murder charge dropped, a prosecutor said.

In his response to John Shea’s motion asking for U.S. District Judge Thomas L. Ludington to drop the murder charge against Anthony Bennett, Assistant U.S. attorneys Roy Kranz and Craig F. Wininger argued that federal murder law prohibits the unlawful killing of another “with malice aforethought.”

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A hearing on the defense motion is set to be argued Nov. 18 at 9:30 a.m. in Ludington’s Bay City courtroom.

In their response to defense attorney John Shea’s motion, Kranz and Wininger said Shea’s assertion that the element of malice aforethought is not applied to felony murder is incorrect.

They also challenged a defense claim that the grand jury indictment against Bennett was vague.

“Murder in all its forms - premeditated murder, second-degree murder, felony murder and ‘misdemeanor murder’ - requires malice aforethought,” the prosecutors said in their response. “Malice, however, does not require proof of an intent to kill.

Read more:

http://www.themorningsun.com/general-news/20131031/prosecutor-answers-bennett-motion

This is full of info.

Anthony Bennett, charged in death of 4 year old, has jail-assault trial postponed in Bay County
November 19, 2013

"BAY CITY, MI — Rather than proceed to trial on charges of assaulting Bay County jail employees while being held on federal charges related to the slaying of his girlfriend's son, a Mount Pleasant man is likely to accept a plea offer. "

"Bennett is charged with two counts each of assaulting a jail or prison employee, a five-year felony, and assaulting, resisting or obstructing police, a two-year felony, plus one count of malicious destruction of a building between $200 and $1,000."

" In connection with Carnel’s death, Bennett is charged federally with first-degree murder, assault resulting in substantial bodily injury and assault within special maritime or territorial jurisdiction. He is also charged federally with assault with a dangerous weapon, animal cruelty and two counts of tampering with a witness, victim or informant in connection with conduct prosecutors say occurred against Jaimee Chamberlain and others."

Much more info...
http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2013/11/anthony_bennetts_trial_on_char.html

Anthony Bennett, charged federally with 4-year-old's killing, to face trial in Bay County on charges of assaulting jail employees
November 18, 2013

" BAY CITY, MI — Before he goes before a federal jury on charges of killing his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son, Anthony M. Bennett is to face a local trial on charges of assaulting Bay County Jail employees....."

http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2013/11/anthony_bennett_charged_federa.html

Attorney for Mount Pleasant man charged with 4-year-old's slaying attempts to separate charges
October 02, 2013

Court records indicate that Jaimee Chamberlain told investigators she witnessed Bennett choke, punch and drag her son on at least two occasions in May and June 2012. wrote:

http://www.mlive.com/news/bay-city/index.ssf/2013/10/attorney_for_mount_pleasant_ma.html

And she did nothing????

Bennett enters plea in murder of Carnel Chamberlain

Posted: 12/18/13, 12:22 PM EST

By SUSAN FIELD, The Morning Sun

Anthony Michael Bennett, the Isabella County man jailed for more than a year in connection with the murder of 4-year-old Carnel Chamberlain, has entered a plea in federal court.

Bennett, 21, pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder in U.S. District Judge Thomas L. Ludington’s Bay City courtroom.

He is scheduled to be sentenced March 27 at 2:30 p.m.

According to the plea arrangement, Bennett, who murdered Carnel at the home he shared with the boy’s mother on East Tomah Road in Chippewa Township June 21, 2012, is to be sentenced to 35 to 40 years in prison, according to court documents

Read more:

http://www.themorningsun.com/general-news/20131218/bennett-enters-plea-in-murder-of-carnel-chamberlain

Man pleads guilty to killing 4-year-old boy on Indian reservation

Dec. 17, 2013

BAY CITY — A young man accused of killing a 4-year-old boy on a central Michigan Indian reservation and burning the body pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder.

The plea came less than a month before trial was scheduled in Bay City federal court. Anthony Bennett admitted killing his girlfriend’s son, Carnel Chamberlain, in 2012 and burying the remains under a home where the three lived on the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Reservation near Mount Pleasant.

“Bennett acted with callous and wanton disregard for Carnel’s life when he killed Carnel,” according to a 10-page plea agreement signed by prosecutors, Bennett and his attorney.

Read more:

http://www.thetimesherald.com/viewart/20131217/NEWS05/312170012/Man-pleads-guilty-killing-4-year-old-boy-Indian-reservation

Bennett gets 40 years for killing 4-year-old Carnel Chamberlain
Posted: 05.22.2014 at 4:13 PM

BAY CITY (AP) -- A young man who killed a 4-year-old boy on a central Michigan Indian reservation has been sentenced to 40 years in federal prison, the maximum under his plea agreement.

Read more:  http://www.upnorthlive.com/news/story.aspx?id=1048018#.VXjW10bczIU


Moving topic from Unsolved Homicides to Closed.