Judge Puts Limits on Bomb Trial Evidence
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Prosecutors will have to limit their use of hair, fiber and handwriting analyses in the Oklahoma City bombing trial, a judge ruled. Expert witnesses will be allowed to make comparisons but not draw conclusions about what the evidence shows, said U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch in Denver. The government wants to use such analyses to link defendants Timothy J. McVeigh and Terry L. Nichols to each other and to the 1995 federal building bombing.
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