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DENVER: Although attorneys from sides in the Oklahoma City bombing trial tried to use Jennifer McVeigh's testimony to their advantage, TIME's Patrick Cole reports that her appearance chiefly benefited the prosecution. A calm, collected Ms. McVeigh told jurors Tuesday that she received a letter from her brother Tim a few weeks before the explosion promising "something big is going to happen in the month of the bull," an apparent astrological reference to April. Never asking what that something was, she followed her brother's instructions and burned the letter. The 23-year-old college student also recalled...
DENVER: A key government witness in the Oklahoma City bombing trial told jurors that Timothy McVeigh sat in her living room several months before the attack and described his plan to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah building. "He said it was an easy target," recalled Lori Fortier, the wife of McVeigh's close friend Michael Fortier. Mrs. Fortier said that during the conversation, which took place in October 1994 in the Fortier's Arizona mobile home, McVeigh drew a diagram, using soup cans to illustrate how he planned to bundle the bomb in a shaped triangular charge for maximum...
Fortier, meanwhile, can expect that Jones will try to obliterate him on cross-examination. Jones has grounds to attack his credibility: Fortier has changed his story several times, and he is testifying for the prosecution as part of a plea-bargaining deal. As for The Turner Diaries, McVeigh's visit to Waco and other evidence about McVeigh's opinions, Jones will argue that none of it proves his client blew up the Murrah building...
Jones may be flamboyant, but he is also smart. He has already won two important victories, by getting the venue for the trial moved out of Oklahoma and by convincing Judge Matsch that McVeigh should be tried separately from Nichols. It was the first time the judge had ever agreed to sever the cases of two defendants. "Stephen Jones is a ferociously intelligent trial lawyer," says Mimi Wesson, a professor of criminal law at the University of Colorado and a former U.S. Attorney in Denver from 1980 to 1982. "I have read some of his briefs in the McVeigh case...
This is a grim epic under way in Denver. Officially, the case is called United States of America v. Timothy James McVeigh, and never has such an appellation been more fitting. The entire country truly seems to be the plaintiff, while the defendant, if the descriptions of him are fair, apparently sees the world as Timothy James McVeigh vs. the United States of America. The nation has mourned for two years. Come the summer, it will discover if it has brought the perpetrator of the horrors of Oklahoma to justice...