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...sharp. No one gets into the courtroom after he walks in, between 8:59:40 and 8:59:50 a.m. Absolutely. Cross him, and you will have a tale to tell. "He's virtually always the brightest person sitting in that room," says Larry Pozner, a Denver attorney and a vice president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. "In Denver, if you're going to be a federal trial lawyer, one stage is to be yelled at by Judge Matsch." Says Pozner: "I've also seen agents of the Federal Government deeply regret they have come up short...
...What's the objection?" Matsch growled, when prosecutor Joseph Hartzler raised one amid the Oklahoma-bombing proceedings. At mid-sentence, Matsch cut him off: "There is no basis in that! Overruled!" Hartzler offered no challenge. Says Bob Miller, a Denver lawyer: "He doesn't allow the government to wear the white hat." While Matsch has allowed McVeigh's defense a number of procedural victories, the judge remains tough with Jones and his associates. During jury selection, he berated a defense lawyer, calling his questioning "incomprehensible." The judge, who lost a daughter in a freak accident in 1992, has not gone...
...DENVER: The message to the jury was simple: someone else bombed the Alfred P. Murrah building two years ago, not Timothy McVeigh. As the defense got underway in the Oklahoma City bombing trial, Oklahoma state medical examiner Fred Gordon detailed the task of matching 98 body parts with the 168 victims found in the rubble in gruesome testimony that left some jurors looking queasy. The last body part was the key to his testimony, if highly inconclusive as evidence: while eight bodies were found without left legs, nine left legs were found. The extra leg, Gordon said, did not match...
...DENVER: Timothy McVeigh's attorneys suffered a major defeat Tuesday when the judge in the Oklahoma City bombing trial barred further questions about the scathing federal report on problems in the FBI crime lab. The defense had hoped to use the report to cast extensive doubt on the physical evidence that the FBI lab examined, and disqualify the prosecution's FBI expert testimony. But the judge, during cross-examination of FBI chemist Steven Burmeister, barred discussion of the larger problems in the FBI crime lab, including those documented in a highly critical Justice Department. The report, released in April, found...
...DENVER: Providing the first scientific testimony linking Timothy McVeigh to bomb materials, FBI chemist Steven Burmeister told jurors that when McVeigh was arrested after the Oklahoma bombing, his clothing carried traces of PETN, an explosive used in bomb detonator cord. It was a dramatic ending to a day that the defense spent in attacking the credibility of the embattled FBI crime lab, including accusations that FBI forensic scientists contaminated key pieces of the Ryder truck used in the bombing. Several of the shards of the truck found near the explosion site are instrumental to the prosecution's case because...