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...consider what happened in Oklahoma, Tim was a good person." --MICHAEL FORTIER...
...defense's final sally came on Wednesday, when Jones played tapes of Michael Fortier, McVeigh's Army buddy, talking about the case with friends. The tapes were made by the fbi when Fortier was a suspect. Under a plea-bargain deal, he testified for the prosecution that he had helped McVeigh plan the bombing. "I can tell a fable," he said to his father when he was contemplating the deal. "I can tell stories all day long." On another tape he joked about how much money he could make selling his tale to newspapers and television shows...
Making the closing argument, Jones assailed Fortier and his wife Lori, another prosecution witness. He apologized for playing the tapes, which were "vulgar and appalling." It was necessary, he said, because "what we basically have here with the Fortiers is the prosecutorial equivalent of Eliza Doolittle being made over into the Henry Higgins of the fbi and My Fair Lady has become My Fair Witness." Another defense lawyer, Christopher Tritico, asked why PETN, the explosive material found on McVeigh's clothes, was not discovered elsewhere. "The government didn't give you any PETN from McVeigh's car," he said...
...after Terry Nichols receives his day in court. Cole says the district attorney: "is not satisfied with the Fed's focusing on just McVeigh and Terry Nichols. He thinks John Doe 2 is still out there and he wants to go after some of the smaller players, like Michael Fortier." Macy also argues that the state trial is needed because the untested terrorism law under which McVeigh was convicted might not withstand appeals. But many in Oklahoma would rather see quicker closure in the case so they can move on with their lives. "I just don't see the point...
...defense argument, contrasted with a sharp and thorough prosecution that crisply made its points with more than 125 witnesses over three weeks, had many believing the defense had blown it. But Cole notes that McVeigh's lawyers made inroads in closing arguments that attacked star prosecution witness Michael Fortier and the forensic evidence in the case. Christopher Tritico hit hard at the prosecutors' assertion that traces of the explosive PETN found on McVeigh linked him to the bombing, insisting that much more should have been there if McVeigh was the culprit. "The government didn't give you any PETN from...