Second Sniper Trial Set Over Timing Objections
A judge tentatively set Oct. 4 for convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad’s second trial, turning aside defense objections that it was too early for such action.
Muhammad is on death row after being convicted last year in one of the 10 killings in the shootings that terrorized residents in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., in October 2002.
He made his first appearance in Fairfax County Circuit Court, where he is charged in the slaying of FBI analyst Linda Franklin. Muhammad was indicted in her death in November 2002, but was not formally notified of the charges until last month.
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