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...kind gesture of 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...
...They have been fabulous," says John Coyle, who was one of McVeigh's first lawyers and who has been watching the trial. "They're brilliant. I've never seen a prosecution put on as well as this...
...effort has not made an impression on the public. Since the trial is not televised, McVeigh is more like an evil cipher, and the proceedings have not been the talk of lunchrooms across America. "Some people follow it," says Everett White, 55, of Pueblo, Colo. "You see it in the papers, but it's not like that other one, with...what's his name?" As for McVeigh's guilt, says Mark Collins, city manager of Gunnison, Colo.: "Jeez, you think there's a question there...
...While McVeigh's lead attorney, Stephen Jones, has rattled some of the prosecution witnesses, he has failed to undermine them. Often his team appear unprepared. If that weren't enough, sources tell TIME that Jones may be about to suffer a blow from Judge Richard Matsch. For months, Jones has said the bombing may have been the result of an international conspiracy. To gather evidence, Jones sent investigators to the Middle East and Asia. Now, these sources say, Matsch may decide not to permit the defense to call witnesses who would testify about the alleged plot. Apparently Jones...
DENVER: The message to the jury was simple: someone else bombed the Alfred P. Murrah building two years ago, not Timothy McVeigh. As the defense got underway in the Oklahoma City bombing trial, Oklahoma state medical examiner Fred Gordon detailed the task of matching 98 body parts with the 168 victims found in the rubble in gruesome testimony that left some jurors looking queasy. The last body part was the key to his testimony, if highly inconclusive as evidence: while eight bodies were found without left legs, nine left legs were found. The extra leg, Gordon said, did not match...