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DENVER: Timothy McVeigh's attorneys suffered a major defeat Tuesday when the judge in the Oklahoma City bombing trial barred further questions about the scathing federal report on problems in the FBI crime lab. The defense had hoped to use the report to cast extensive doubt on the physical evidence that the FBI lab examined, and disqualify the prosecution's FBI expert testimony. But the judge, during cross-examination of FBI chemist Steven Burmeister, barred discussion of the larger problems in the FBI crime lab, including those documented in a highly critical Justice Department. The report, released in April, found...
DENVER: Providing the first scientific testimony linking Timothy McVeigh to bomb materials, FBI chemist Steven Burmeister told jurors that when McVeigh was arrested after the Oklahoma bombing, his clothing carried traces of PETN, an explosive used in bomb detonator cord. It was a dramatic ending to a day that the defense spent in attacking the credibility of the embattled FBI crime lab, including accusations that FBI forensic scientists contaminated key pieces of the Ryder truck used in the bombing. Several of the shards of the truck found near the explosion site are instrumental to the prosecution's case because...
DENVER: Stephen Jones scored points in his cross-examination of Michael Fortier, charging that Timothy McVeigh's friend changed his story, his clothes and demeanor for the sake of obscuring his own involvement in the Oklahoma bombing. Two years ago, a scruffy Fortier sported a beard and earring. His speech was littered with vulgarities. On an FBI wiretap recording soon after the attack, Fortier boasted to a friend of making money by being the government's star witness. But over the past two days in court, in a new suit and haircut, the clean-shaven Fortier answered many questions with...
...Peruvian President who had to use force to end the four-month siege of the Japanese embassy in Lima. Officials took every precaution in the standoff, not least because Texas is the place that saw the Waco conflagration. (Earlier in the week, the Denver trial of Timothy McVeigh, who was allegedly motivated by Waco, was placed under tighter security after three men with ties to the Branch Davidians were arrested in a raid in Colorado in which FBI agents confiscated explosives.) Thus, arrayed in Fort Davis, Texas, against McLaren, his wife and five lieutenants were officers of the Texas department...
DENVER: After two weeks of testimony from 80 witnesses in the trial of Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh, sources tell TIME's Patrick Cole that the government could rest its case as early as next Friday. Originally, prosecutors had said it would take six to eight weeks to present their evidence from a line-up of 327 witnesses. "Prosecutors now feel they don't need to overprove this case," Cole says. "They don't want to bog down the jury with unnecessary details." The prosecution strongly believes that they are winning over jurors with the often powerfully emotional testimony...