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...turns out that the only thing harder than finding the alleged Unabomber after 18 years, 200 suspects, thousands of interviews and one of the longest, most expensive manhunts in FBI history, is making him sit down and shut up. Theodore Kaczynski, lonely hermit, brilliant sociopath, murderous wood carver, has been fighting with his lawyers for months. They wanted to mount a mental-illness defense; he wanted no part of it. Kaczynski made it clear that he would do anything, even fire his attorneys, to keep them from portraying him as a "sickie...
...last week his team had agreed to skip the mental-illness defense during the trial so long as the lawyers could pull it out in the penalty phase to help avoid a death sentence. They planned to show jurors photos of the ripe, shaggy hermit at the time of his arrest and offer a tour of the creepy cabin, which has been trucked in as evidence, all to give jurors an idea of the life-style of the man on trial. Burrell overruled Kaczynski's objections to this plan on the grounds that the lawyers, not the client, should...
Kaczynski Request Denied Unabomber-accused Theodore Kaczynski failed in his bid to fire his defense team and appoint a new attorney. Do more courtroom surprises await as the hermit mathematician?s trial resumes today? Full Story...
...trial promises to be as much a spectacle as the preceding manhunt. Prosecutors, confident of a conviction and seeking the death penalty, have turned down a deal in which the mathematician-turned-hermit would plead guilty and serve life without parole...
...Rundell, who gave Kaczynski a bicycle and got a rare tour of the hermit's garden-irrigation system in return, had the same impression. "I always thought that he acted, for a person who was a recluse, well within the bounds of society. He always seemed a little jumpy. But I put that down to the fact that he was not a social person...