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...believe that it?s important to give McVeigh?s defense lawyers time to examine these documents, because it will help maintain trust in the judicial system. Even if the documents did show he didn?t act alone, I don?t think there?s any real sense that McVeigh wasn?t one of, if not the, primary actors in the bombing...
...Timothy McVeigh?s case is unique in many ways. Until now, it hasn?t included many of the issues that are generally involved in death penalty cases, including racial inequities and ill-prepared defense counsel. But even with the government?s commitment to a fair trial and their unlimited resources, a serious mistake was made. And these are the kinds of mistakes that happen all the time in lower profile cases...
...McVeigh had the best representation he could be possibly have; he had all the resources in the world. But this happened anyway...
...Kent Scheidegger, Legal Director for the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a Sacramento- based non-profit organization supporting "the rights of victims of crime and the law-abiding public." While Scheidegger says the organization supports the death penalty on a case by case basis, CJLF "unquestionably" supports Timothy McVeigh?s death sentence...
...very important to remember that these documents probably aren?t exculpatory. They aren?t going to render McVeigh innocent. It?s just a situation where you have a case with a huge amount of material, and some portion of that with no particular exculpatory value was not turned over to the defense team...