NATION : Ga. Man Indicted in Mail Killings
The Justice Department today announced a 70-count indictment against a Georgia man for the mail-bomb killings of a federal appellate judge and a Savannah civil rights lawyer.
Atty. Gen. Dick Thornburgh and FBI Director William S. Sessions announced the indictment, which was returned in Atlanta against Walter L. Moody Jr.
Moody, 56, is charged with mailing package bombs last December that killed U.S. Circuit Judge Robert S. Vance and Savannah, Ga., City Alderman and civil rights lawyer Robert E. Robinson.
Moody, of Rex, Ga., is charged with murder of a U.S. judge, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison. He also is charged with sending package bombs to the court where Vance sat, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, and the Jacksonville, Fla., office of the NAACP.
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