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DENVER: Timothy McVeigh watched quietly as his jury walked into the courtroom. Jurors could not look him in the eye as he sat still with his hands clasped in front of him while the verdict was read: Guilty on all 11 counts in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City. Guilty of using a weapon of mass destruction to kill people and destroy federal property. Guilty of using a weapon of mass destruction that caused death and injury. Guilty of one count of malicious destruction of federal property. Guilty of eight counts of murdering federal...
DENVER: The verdict concludes the first of several trials that arise from the bombing. As for McVeigh?s punishment, jurors on Wednesday will begin hearings that could take as long as two weeks to determine whether he should get the death penalty. The defense has not tipped its strategy for that phase, but Jones may ask the jury to consider McVeigh's youth and the fact that he served his country during the Gulf War. Another possible tactic: Put McVeigh, who did not testify during the trial, on the stand to appeal for mercy. Because Judge Matsch has put lawyers...
Last Friday afternoon that jury found Hoover and six cohorts guilty of narcotics conspiracy. Though sentencing may not take place for several weeks, the verdict could consign Hoover--already serving a 150-to-200-year sentence for murder--to a maximum-security federal penitentiary for the rest of his life, without possibility of parole and, equally important, cut off from almost all communications. His conviction was the capstone of an eight-year effort by federal prosecutors to break up the Gangster Disciples, the Chicago-based street gang that for more than two decades has controlled some of the most lucrative...
...June 17, 1996, with Murdock set up on the fifth floor of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, the trial began. About four hours later, the patient went home, a catheter in his chest, to await the verdict. Tarnowski called that night to tell him that the purging had finally worked. Then began some two months of grueling radiation, chemotherapy and the new, improved bone-marrow transplant...
Maggiore, who works as a waiter in his parents' Long Beach restaurant, has declined to comment after the verdict. Messages left for him with his attorney were not returned yesterday...