“The bomb was built to kill and...
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“The bomb was built to kill and he had the bomb, so we felt that if the officers made a mistake, it just wasn’t important.”
--Unnamed juror in the trial of makeup artist Donald Lee Morse, convicted of murder in the deaths of two police officers killed while dismantling a pipe bomb in Morse’s basement. Although the trial judge disallowed defense arguments that the officers caused their own deaths by carelessness, jurors said they heard enough hints to know what the defense lawyers were getting at.
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