Rudolph’s Lawyers Try to Block Death Penalty
From Times Wire Reports
Lawyers for serial bombing suspect Eric Rudolph are trying to block the government from seeking the death penalty when he goes to trial for a fatal attack on an abortion clinic.
They planned to meet today with a Justice Department panel that is to consider whether to recommend trying Rudolph for a capital crime.
Defense lawyers were expected to argue that only circumstantial evidence links Rudolph to the bombing in Birmingham on Jan. 29, 1998, that killed an off-duty police officer and injured a clinic nurse.
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