Trial Set Over Abortion Bomb Plot Charges
A March 1 trial date was set Monday for the Rev. Dorman Owens and six followers charged with him in a plot to bomb a medical facility that provided abortions.
However, three separate trials may be held because defense attorneys plan to file severance motions seeking trials separate from that of Owens, 54, the jailed minister of the Bible Missionary Fellowship in Santee.
U.S. District Court Judge Earl Gilliam set the trial date and set Jan. 19 for hearing the severance motions the attorneys plan to present.
The six are charged in the attempted bombing July 27 of the Family Planning Associates Medical Group in east San Diego. A pipe bomb was placed next to a two-gallon can of gasoline, but the bomb did not explode.
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