Word: mcveigh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bitter and confounding episode is shifting to the eventual trial scene in Denver. Since federal courts don't ordinarily permit cameras, some families of the victims who won't be making the almost 600-mile trip from Oklahoma City are petitioning for special closed-circuit coverage. The defendants, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, were moved last month from Oklahoma to a medium-security prison about 16 miles from the Denver courthouse. McVeigh told TIME that he prefers the new accommodations...
Meanwhile, the ceaselessly humming brain center for McVeigh's defense is elsewhere still, in Enid, Oklahoma, 68 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. On the 11th floor of the Broadway Tower, the tallest building in Enid's unhurried downtown, are the offices of Stephen Jones, McVeigh's court-appointed attorney...
...York (as a young lawyer working for Richard Nixon) and another part in Washington as a congressional aide. His thinking doesn't stop at the county line. Prosecutors, led by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Hartzler, plan to lay the crime squarely at the feet of Nichols and McVeigh, two Army buddies immersed in the furies and paranoia of the extreme right wing. Jones plans to go global, arguing to the jury that his client is just a pawn in a conspiracy so vast that even he's not sure yet just what...
...prosecution does. Records showing how much he has spent will remain sealed until after the trial.) What Jones is after is support for a conspiracy theory--or is it several theories?--in which Middle Eastern terrorists, German rightists and homegrown white supremacists are all brought onstage. And where Tim McVeigh gets lost in the crowd scenes. Jones appears to hope that he can persuade the jury that even if his client was involved with the crime, he bears diminished responsibility because he was no more than the triggerman in a larger plot...
...record, McVeigh maintains his innocence. But if Jones should fall back upon the argument that his client played a part in the crime, but only a lesser one, he might at least spare him the death penalty. As a matter of law, if McVeigh committed the crimes with which he is charged, he would still be guilty even if he acted as an underling in a larger conspiracy. But if Jones can promote sufficient doubts and sympathies within the minds of the jurors, what the law directs may not matter...