Rudolph’s Lawyers Try to Block Death Penalty
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From Times Wire Reports
Lawyers for serial bombing suspect Eric Rudolph are trying to block the government from seeking the death penalty when he goes to trial for a fatal attack on an abortion clinic.
They planned to meet today with a Justice Department panel that is to consider whether to recommend trying Rudolph for a capital crime.
Defense lawyers were expected to argue that only circumstantial evidence links Rudolph to the bombing in Birmingham on Jan. 29, 1998, that killed an off-duty police officer and injured a clinic nurse.
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