Word: mcveigh
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...prosecution does. Records showing how much he has spent will remain sealed until after the trial.) What Jones is after is support for a conspiracy theory--or is it several theories?--in which Middle Eastern terrorists, German rightists and homegrown white supremacists are all brought onstage. And where Tim McVeigh gets lost in the crowd scenes. Jones appears to hope that he can persuade the jury that even if his client was involved with the crime, he bears diminished responsibility because he was no more than the triggerman in a larger plot...
...record, McVeigh maintains his innocence. But if Jones should fall back upon the argument that his client played a part in the crime, but only a lesser one, he might at least spare him the death penalty. As a matter of law, if McVeigh committed the crimes with which he is charged, he would still be guilty even if he acted as an underling in a larger conspiracy. But if Jones can promote sufficient doubts and sympathies within the minds of the jurors, what the law directs may not matter...
...indictment it handed down in August, the grand jury that charged McVeigh and Nichols with murder and conspiracy acknowledged that the pair may have worked "with persons unknown." Prosecutors are confident, however, that the two men were the prime movers behind the bombing and that the government has ample evidence of their involvement...
Witnesses identify McVeigh as the man who rented a Ryder van under a false name on April 17. During the days leading up to the blast, they place him and his truck at the Dreamland Motel in Junction City, Kansas, about 200 miles from Oklahoma City, where he was registered under his own name. Other witnesses say that in the moments before the explosion they saw McVeigh, a Ryder truck and the beige Mercury in which McVeigh was later arrested all in front of the Alfred P. Murrah building...
...prosecution case will depend mostly upon physical evidence. McVeigh's fingerprints were found on a receipt for 40 one-fifth-pound bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer--the chief ingredient in the Oklahoma bomb--that the FBI discovered at Nichols' home in Kansas, where they also found detonator cords with blasting caps. After McVeigh's arrest, traces of explosives were detected on his clothing and in his car. Prosecutors will argue that McVeigh and Nichols stashed the fertilizer in rented storage facilities, then mixed and assembled their bomb in a park near Nichols' farm. To clinch its case, the prosecution does...