Daughter joins mother's motion to stop appeal in Facebook Murder case based on "evidence" in prosecutor's book

Jenelle Potter, the woman convicted of plotting the murders of a love interest and his fiancee, has now asked a judge to intervene in her appeal because defense attorneys say the true-crime novel written by the prosecutor has evidence the state never revealed.Potter and her parents, Marvin 'Buddy" and Barbara Potter, were all convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the Jan. 31, 2012, shooting deaths of Bill Payne, 36, and Billie Jean Hayworth, 23, inside that couple's Johnson County home. Marvin Potter's trial was held in 2013. His wife and daughter were tried last year. Jamie Curd was set to stand trial with the women, but he struck a deal with prosecutors and testified against them in exchange for a 25-year sentence for pleading guilty to facilitation to second-degree murder.Before the slayings, Payne had befriended Jenelle Potter, and through Payne, Jenelle Potter met Curd, who was Payne's cousin. Prosecutors said Jenelle Potter had a crush on Payne, but he began dating Hayworth and she developed a hatred for Hayworth and her friends.Jenelle also developed a crush on Curd, a self-taught computer fix-it guy who often worked on the Potters' computer as well as Payne's. During Jenelle and Barbara's trial last year, defense attorneys said Curd could have easily manipulated both computers to show emails were sent from one or the other.That was to refute the state computer expert's testimony, which unequivocally said thousands of emails from Jenelle and Barbara to a mysterious man named Chris — supposedly a CIA agent who was in Mountain City watching all that was going on but couldn't get involved — originated from the Potter computer.Jenelle Potter was reportedly jealous of Payne and Hayworth's relationship and was accused of making up things she said Hayworth and her friends said to harass her. Witnesses in the case said each side harassed the other.The situation played out on social media, including Facebook and Topix. Jenelle Potter said she had a protector of sorts, the man named Chris, who was in the CIA and was watching out for her safety.Attorneys for Barbara Potter filed a detailed petition for a writ of coram nobis last month in Washington County Criminal Court that points to numerous items that showed up in Assistant District Attorney General Dennis Brooks' book "Too Pretty To Live."The title was taken from one of thousands of emails Jenelle Potter wrote saying Hayworth and her friends believed Jenelle was "too pretty."The petition Jenelle Potter filed Aug. 1 is not as detailed as her mother's and is handwritten by Jenelle. It does state the basic claim that prosecutors never turned over footage from a video camera installed near the Potter home and statements Curd made to investigators the defense never knew about."There are several issues raised in the book written by Mr. Brooks that were not disclosed to my lawyer or me," Jenelle Potter wrote. She asked for a judge to appoint her trial attorney, Cameron Hyder, to represent her in the new petition.Before Jenelle and Barbara Potter's trial, defense attorneys attempted to stop Brooks from writing the book, but Senior Judge Jon Kerry Blackwood said he had no control over what Brooks did in his free time. Brooks said at that time that he consulted with the Board of Professional Responsibility and was told there was nothing barring him from writing a book after the trial was over. The book was published about eight months after the trial."The book is not appropriate and is written by a prosecutor who hates me," Jenelle Potter wrote. "He violated the law." She went on to say that, "Mr. Brooks lied to make himself look good during an election year. Please give me a new trial."A new judge will have to be appointed to hear the writ because Blackwood has retired.Marvin Potter appealed his convictions, but the Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the convictions and life sentences.