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Sherman Noble, 51, seen in his jail cell recently, has waited while a revolving cast of judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys have debated his mental competency. LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP)--Unlike the short-timers in the jail who stay in large barracks-like rooms, Sherman Noble has been given a cell of his own. A desk next to his cot is stacked with volumes of paperwork and court documents. With his television blaring, a blanket drying under a ceiling vent and several containers of ramen noodles piled under his bed, Noble is settled in like a man with no plans to leave anytime soon. Since being charged in the 1980s with murdering four men, three of them bludgeoned with bricks, Noble has yet to stand trial. For more than 15 years, he has waited while a revolving cast of judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys have debated his mental competency. As time drags by, the 51-year-old Noble says witnesses are dying, memories are fading--including his own--and his chance for justice is slipping away. ``There's one battle I know for sure I'm losing--that's the battle with Father Time,'' he says during an interview at the Jefferson County Jail. ``I can't get a fair trial at this point.'' Now, it is Noble who is slowing the process. A request to dismiss all charges on speedy trial grounds is making its rounds through the higher courts, temporarily suspending the possibility of a criminal trial. It isn't uncommon for competency issues to delay a trial. But Noble's delay has been unusually long, especially since the average wait for a Kentucky criminal defendant to get a trial is less than 10 months. ``This one seems almost off the curve to me,'' says Ron Honberg, spokesman for the National Alliance for The Mentally Ill. Last year in Florida, Robert George Neal was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading no contest to child molestation. But Neal was released just three days after sentencing because he had spent 12 years in jail while his trial was delayed by competency issues. University of Louisville law professor Tim Hall said that if a judge rules a defendant is a threat to himself or others, he is sent to a psychiatric facility for treatment and re-evaluations. ``If he's dangerous because of his mental illness then you can keep him, and you can really keep him indefinitely,'' Hall said. Noble, who spent time in mental hospitals before his arrest, is accused of robbing Walker Ison, Charles Thompson and Lorenzo Harris, and then bludgeoning them to death with bricks during a five-day period in March 1987. Noble knew all three men and had been invited into their homes prior to their slayings, police say. Five months after Noble was charged with those murders, a grand jury also indicted him in the 1985 shooting death of Michael Edward Cox. Prosecutors say Noble shot Cox after a ``long-running feud.'' Noble acknowledges that he confessed to the killings, but says he was beaten by police. ``I would have said I murdered Jesus Christ the way I was being beat,'' he says. What exactly he said in the confessions is unclear because Noble's initial interview with police is missing. Deborah Cork, the mother of Noble's children, said in police interviews that a mixture of religion and retribution was behind the slayings. She told police in 1987 that Noble told her ``he's tired of all these snakes going around trying to cross him. And that he's going to do away with them.'' She also said Noble admitted killing Ison, quoting him as saying he ``done it for my little girl and for God.'' While McGee can understand why his client's competency has been evaluated, he says the process spiraled out of control. McGee says after the first evaluation in 1989, Noble should have been admitted to the Kentucky Correctional Psychiatric Center and re-evalutated in a year. Instead, he was shuttled between mental hospitals and jail and not evaluated again until 1991. In Noble's 1995 evaluation, the third time he was been found incompetent, Dr. J. Robert Noonan wrote that Noble's ``psychopathology appears to be limited to his perception of the judicial system and the roles of his attorneys in it.'' In 1997, Noble was finally found competent to participate in his own defense. But lawyers and judges weren't convinced, and Noble, who says he participated in the evaluations only to get to the trial he was sure would exonerate him, stopped cooperating. Noble remained in Central State Hospital through 1999 on the order of Judge Stephen Ryan, who inherited the case after another judge retired. A year later, Noble's attorneys quit and he refused further evaluations. When McGee came on board, he considered the competency issue settled and began preparing for a trial. But Noble's appeals attorney, Jay Polombi, is working to get the charges dismissed before one can be held. Kentucky's Court of Appeals has already rejected Noble's speedy trial petition, but Polombi said the state Supreme Court and perhaps even federal courts remain an option. Noble isn't giving up. He complains that the jailhouse food is robbing his eyesight and that his skin is blotchy from spending 23 hours a day in his cell. ``Living under these kinds of conditions takes its toll,'' he said. AP-NY-04-09-03 0210EDT - 06/22/03...I had a letter from Sherman last week and it seems we will be corresponding. He sounds a really cool guy and is looking for someone to help him write a book. It seems there has been lots of skullduggery surrounding his unfair incarceration but people are rallying around and hopefully the REAL bad guys will soon be brought to light!Annez / Sweden / 030622 - 07/31/03... Today I received a letter from Sherman and he sent me a copy of his latest Appeals Brief. He also sent me a letter saying I should please notice the foot-note on pg 5. I must say that, for a man who is considered incompetent, he certainly writes an intelligent and well constructed letter. He has given me permission to put his story out on the Internet in the hope that it will give him much needed exposure. I have found that when a case is shuffled from one court to another or there are shady nuances ..something stinks! AND ESPECIALLY when evidence is lost or sealed!As to the foot-note..' It is well worth noting that during the time period, when he was allegedly "incompetent", Mr Noble was litigating an issue in the Federal Courts concerning his treatment in the Kentucky psychiatric hospitals. See Noble v Schmitt, 87 F3d 157 (6th cir.1996)- NOBLE v SCHMITT..11/18/03... After a long silence I finally heard from Sherman today. He tells me his attorney never filed his appeal brief on time and now he has to go with habeas corpus to the Federal Courts. Now this is very upsetting to me also..because that attorney gets paid by the state..admittedly a meagre sum, but still..to do the work he is meant to do! It sounds like a conspiracy and I wish Sherman the very best of luck!! I am sending him printouts of his webpages so he can circulate them!Annez...11/18/03 *** Interview by TV Channel on 3rd May 2004..*** Latest Update..3rd Dec 2004 - Sherman Noble goes to trial..*** New Update..18th Dec 2004 - Sherman Noble convicted.. * More.. - Sherman Noble gets DEATH..*** New Update..7th Feb 2005 - Sherman Noble Sentenced To Death.. - Defence E-Mail.. - Case filled with memory loss.. - Articles, Pics & Docs.. 'Fighting Injustice' AnnEz/ Sweden 2003
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