New Murder Count for Antiabortion Extremist
From Times Wire Reports
An antiabortion extremist was indicted on a new murder charge almost a month after he admitted in a jail interview that he killed an Amherst doctor who provided abortions.
James Kopp, already charged with intentional second-degree murder, pleaded not guilty to the new charge of reckless murder with depraved indifference to human life. If convicted, he could get 25 years to life in prison.
Kopp admitted in a newspaper last month that he carried out the 1998 fatal sniper attack on Dr. Barnett Slepian.
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