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...little Elijah Coverdale, Hartzler and his team have held the courtroom rapt, mixing sentiment with a crisp presentation of damning evidence. When he rests his case early this week, Hartzler will be able to look back on a prosecution that has performed almost without flaw. McVeigh's friend Michael Fortier, the government's key witness, testified convincingly that McVeigh planned the bombing; the witness who says he rented McVeigh the Ryder truck used in the bombing identified him without hesitation; the technical testimony has been pithy. There have also been some surprises--like the ignition key to the truck that...
DENVER: Stephen Jones scored points in his cross-examination of Michael Fortier, charging that Timothy McVeigh's friend changed his story, his clothes and demeanor for the sake of obscuring his own involvement in the Oklahoma bombing. Two years ago, a scruffy Fortier sported a beard and earring. His speech was littered with vulgarities. On an FBI wiretap recording soon after the attack, Fortier boasted to a friend of making money by being the government's star witness. But over the past two days in court, in a new suit and haircut, the clean-shaven Fortier answered many questions with...
...need to overprove this case," Cole says. "They don't want to bog down the jury with unnecessary details." The prosecution strongly believes that they are winning over jurors with the often powerfully emotional testimony presented so far, coupled with upcoming forensic evidence and testimony from Michael Fortier. "They are relying on the jury to use their common sense and connect the dots," Cole says. Friday's witnesses were a case in point. A Chinese food restaurant owner told the jury that four days before the bombing, a man named Robert Kling ordered delivery to the Dreamland Motel's room...
DENVER: A key government witness in the Oklahoma City bombing trial told jurors that Timothy McVeigh sat in her living room several months before the attack and described his plan to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah building. "He said it was an easy target," recalled Lori Fortier, the wife of McVeigh's close friend Michael Fortier. Mrs. Fortier said that during the conversation, which took place in October 1994 in the Fortier's Arizona mobile home, McVeigh drew a diagram, using soup cans to illustrate how he planned to bundle the bomb in a shaped triangular charge for maximum...
...Fortier, meanwhile, can expect that Jones will try to obliterate him on cross-examination. Jones has grounds to attack his credibility: Fortier has changed his story several times, and he is testifying for the prosecution as part of a plea-bargaining deal. As for The Turner Diaries, McVeigh's visit to Waco and other evidence about McVeigh's opinions, Jones will argue that none of it proves his client blew up the Murrah building...