Word: hartzler
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When Joseph Hartzler, the lead prosecutor in the Oklahoma City bombing case, made his opening statement to the jury last month, he began with a story of two little boys. Just before 8 o'clock on April 19, 1995, Tevin Garrett's mother dropped him off at the day-care center in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. "Tevin, as so often happens," Hartzler said, "cried and clung to her." A two-year-old friend of Tevin's, Elijah Coverdale, was moved to sympathy. "Elijah," Hartzler continued, "came up to Tevin and patted him on the back, and comforted...
...bombing is by far the worst terrorist attack in American history, and the pressure on prosecutors to win a conviction could not be greater. According to a new TIME/CNN poll, 83% of the public believes McVeigh is guilty, so if the jury acquits him, the prosecutors, led by Joseph Hartzler, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney from Illinois, will face a tumult of outrage. Last week their burden appeared to become even heavier when the Justice Department released a damning report on the FBI forensics lab. The report specifically criticized work done in the Oklahoma bombing case, saying that investigators...
...call himself a "county-seat" lawyer, he spent part of his career in New York (as a young lawyer working for Richard Nixon) and another part in Washington as a congressional aide. His thinking doesn't stop at the county line. Prosecutors, led by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Hartzler, plan to lay the crime squarely at the feet of Nichols and McVeigh, two Army buddies immersed in the furies and paranoia of the extreme right wing. Jones plans to go global, arguing to the jury that his client is just a pawn in a conspiracy so vast that even...
...role in the eventual trial or trials is another large question mark. Press accounts have touted him as the prosecution's "star witness," but he could also be a risky one, since the defense may allege that he is lying to save his skin. Reno and lead prosecutor Joseph Hartzler insist that Fortier was indicted on every count on which they had enough evidence to convict. He could get a maximum sentence of 23 years, though that might be reduced because of his cooperation...