LOCAL : L.A. Mail Bomb Case Put on Hold
Prosecutors today dropped charges against a millionaire real estate broker and an Israeli woman accused in a fatal mail bombing until a fugitive extremist suspected of making the bomb can be extradited from Israel.
Attorneys for William Ross and Rochelle Ida Manning predicted that neither will be charged again. A federal court jury in Los Angeles deadlocked last week over a verdict, prompting a judge to declare a mistrial.
U.S. District Judge Dickran Tevrizian ruled today that prosecutors could try again to convict Ross and Manning, over the objections of defense attorneys who claimed that there is insufficient evidence to warrant a second trial. Manning’s husband, Robert S. Manning, 36, is a fugitive living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. U.S. authorities have failed to have him arrested by the Israeli government.
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