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DENVER: The first week of jury selection in the Oklahoma City bombing trial demonstrated how difficult it is to pick the right 12 men and women who can be impartial despite having heard plenty about the 1995 attack that killed 168 people. However, the lagging process has also offered a glimpse into how the trial could shape up, and what testimony Judge Richard Matsch, known for his no-nonsense style in the courtroom, may allow. As TIME's Patrick Cole reports, the judge has given the lawyers time for meticulous questioning of the potential jurors on everything from their religious...
DENVER: Nearly two years after a massive bomb shattered a peaceful spring morning in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, jury selection began quietly Monday some 600 miles north in Denver in the criminal trial of suspect Timothy McVeigh. In Oklahoma City, fewer than 75 survivors and relatives showed up at the 320-seat auditorium set aside by the federal government in an FAA building to watch the proceedings on closed-circuit television, though demand for seats is expected to grow keen once the trial begins. While extensive security precautions have been taken to lock down the area around the Denver...
While much of the prosecution's case against Oklahoma bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh is already known, TIME has obtained information about a key piece of evidence that has not been publicly discussed. When officials searched McVeigh's car shortly after the bombing, they found an envelope containing about a dozen documents, among them a copy of the Declaration of Independence and a quotation from John Locke copied in McVeigh's handwriting. According to sources familiar with the envelope's contents, a photocopy of a passage from The Turner Diaries was glued onto one of the pages in the envelope...
...made it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for McVeigh to get an acquittal. Still, Jones will press on. This week he will raise questions about a wider conspiracy by asking the government to hand over all evidence pertaining to Carol Howe, a former atf informant at Elohim City, an Oklahoma retreat of the radical Christian Identity movement. McVeigh phoned Elohim City two weeks before the bombing...
DENVER: Bowing to pressure from Congress and President Clinton, U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch reversed course and agreed to allow survivors of the Oklahoma City bombing and relatives of the victims to attend the trial of Timothy McVeigh, which begins next Monday, even if they plan to testify at a later sentencing hearing. Matsch had argued that that testimony might be influenced by the emotional experience of watching the trial, a possibility bitterly rejected by victims and their relatives. Matsch says he changed his mind because of legislation signed last week by President Clinton that would allow the trial...