Rudolph Bombing Trial Will Have Outside Jury
Eric Robert Rudolph, accused of the fatal 1998 bombing of a Birmingham abortion clinic, will be tried in Birmingham before a jury selected from other parts of the state, a judge said.
The defense had sought a change of venue for Rudolph, charged with bombing the New Woman All Women Health Care Clinic in Birmingham, citing prejudicial publicity. The blast killed an off-duty police officer and maimed a nurse.
At a hearing in Huntsville, which Rudolph attended, U.S. District Judge Lynwood Smith approved a compromise that would keep the trial in Birmingham but use a jury chosen from 31 northern Alabama counties.
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