Judge Moves Trial in Campus Bombings
A federal judge has moved the trial of a white man accused of setting off two pipe bombs at predominantly black Florida A&M; University from Tallahassee to Pensacola because of pretrial publicity. Besides the bombing charges, Lawrence Lombardi, 42, is charged with committing a hate crime. Neither blast did much damage and no one was injured, but last year’s explosions on the Tallahassee campus--and the racist threats that followed each--set the entire school on edge. The trial is set to begin June 19 and is expected to last two weeks.
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