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When Timothy McVeigh enters the Denver courtroom of Judge Richard Matsch, he does not behave at all as you would expect, given the rigid, blank-faced image he projected at his arrest. He usually emerges from the holding cell for defendants with a big smile. Wearing a button-down shirt and khaki pants, his hands in his pockets, he struts toward the defense table. On his way, he makes eyes at female paralegals and chats with them. He nods and grins at the press and the prosecutors. McVeigh is accused of killing 168 people, 19 of them children...
After a recess is called and McVeigh is escorted away, his smile vanishes as soon as he re-enters the detention cell. His face immediately sets itself into a neutral expression. If he is playacting, you have to wonder what he thinks that will accomplish. Surely, the circumstances of the case call for utmost gravity on the part of everyone involved. Perhaps McVeigh's behavior is part of his ongoing effort to show that he is just a regular guy, not a narrow-eyed fanatic. If so, he is defeating his own purpose: a regular guy would never...
Last Saturday was the second anniversary of the explosion that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Sometime this summer, 12 men and women will try to answer the question of what Timothy McVeigh was doing at 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995. Jury selection began March 31, and a panel is expected to be seated this week, with opening statements perhaps being given on Thursday. The trial will take four or five months, if not longer--and as many as 500 witnesses may testify...
...Oklahoma City bombing is by far the worst terrorist attack in American history, and the pressure on prosecutors to win a conviction could not be greater. According to a new TIME/CNN poll, 83% of the public believes McVeigh is guilty, so if the jury acquits him, the prosecutors, led by Joseph Hartzler, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney from Illinois, will face a tumult of outrage. Last week their burden appeared to become even heavier when the Justice Department released a damning report on the FBI forensics lab. The report specifically criticized work done in the Oklahoma bombing case, saying that...
...government may devote as many as two weeks to illustrate McVeigh's mental world. It is important for the prosecutors to make the jurors feel they know McVeigh, know he was capable of great evil and know he had the motive to perpetrate such evil. To do that, they will recount his life as they...