Word: sirhan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Proof Needed. Although the three attorneys defending Sirhan entered objections to exhibiting the diaries, the pages passed from hand to hand in the jury box could only reinforce the defense pleas of diminished responsibility or insanity, which would spare their client the death penalty. The diary also read: Ambassador Goldberg must die die die die die Ambassador Goldberg must die Ambassador Goldberg must be illiminated . . . Kennedy must fall Please pay to the order of Sirhan Sirhan the amount of Sirhan Sirhan...
With a day's respite from court, defense lawyers began constructing their case for the 24-year-old Jordanian immigrant. However, when a Pasadena, Calif., school official began testifying for the defense that Sirhan's IQ was 89 (a score of 90-110 is the norm), their client exploded again. While Judge Walker hastily sequestered the jury, Sirhan addressed the bench. "I, at this time, sir," he declared, "wish to withdraw my original plea of not guilty and submit the plea of guilty on all counts...
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Repudiating his lawyers and demanding that they be fired, Sirhan spoke in quavering tones: "I killed Robert Kennedy willfully, premeditatively, with 20 years of malice aforethought." "Well," snapped Walker, "the evidence has to be proved here in court...