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By Beacon Journal staff report
POSTED: 10:51 a.m. EDT, Jul 23, 2008
A state appeals court has affirmed the conviction of an Akron man charged with killing his girlfriend's 18-month-old son.
Archie L. Wooden, 21, had appealed his conviction last year in Summit County Common Pleas Court on charges of murder, felonious assault and two counts of child endangering. He was sentenced to life in prison.
Wooden, who is being held at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, argued that he was coerced into confessing so his admission shouldn't have been permitted at the trial and that an expert witness wasn't allowed to testify on his behalf. The Ninth District Court of Appeals in Akron rejected those arguments.
Paramedics found the toddler, Cameren Allen, unresponsive when they arrived on Nov. 6, 2006, at a Keys Place apartment that Wooden shared with his girlfriend.
Wooden was arrested two days later and confessed to punching the child in the stomach and banging his head on the floor because he was in a ''full, violent rage.''
Prosecutors had sought the death penalty.
Wooden has maintained his innocence. At trial and to police, he tried to blame the death on his mentally retarded brother, who he said was alone with Cameren for more than a hour on the day the child died.
A state appeals court has affirmed the conviction of an Akron man charged with killing his girlfriend's 18-month-old son.
Archie L. Wooden, 21, had appealed his conviction last year in Summit County Common Pleas Court on charges of murder, felonious assault and two counts of child endangering. He was sentenced to life in prison.
Wooden, who is being held at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, argued that he was coerced into confessing so his admission shouldn't have been permitted at the trial and that an expert witness wasn't allowed to testify on his behalf. The Ninth District Court of Appeals in Akron rejected those arguments.
Paramedics found the toddler, Cameren Allen, unresponsive when they arrived on Nov. 6, 2006, at a Keys Place apartment that Wooden shared with his girlfriend.
Wooden was arrested two days later and confessed to punching the child in the stomach and banging his head on the floor because he was in a ''full, violent rage.''
Prosecutors had sought the death penalty.
Wooden has maintained his innocence. At trial and to police, he tried to blame the death on his mentally retarded brother, who he said was alone with Cameren for more than a hour on the day the child died.
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