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John Allen Muhammad wants separate trials
2006-01-14
Try him fair and hang him fair
high. Ok, I agree, after a fair trial in which his alleged NOI ties are examined.
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ROCKVILLE, Md. (AP) - Attorneys for convicted Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad asked a judge Friday for separate trials for the six murders he is charged with in Maryland. Muhammad's public defenders argued in court documents that a single trial would prejudice a jury with ``irrelevant and inadmissible evidence'' from the separate crimes.

Currently, Muhammad faces a May 1 trial on all six murders.

Muhammad's lawyers requested a hearing on the matter in court papers filed in Rockville on the day of a deadline for pretrial motions.

Prosecutors sought to expand on evidence outside of the six murders. Other crimes, they said, should be considered because evidence from them demonstrate Muhammad's motive, intent and preparation to commit the crimes. ``This evidence is also substantially relevant because it proves that the charged murders were part of a larger scheme to extort $10 million dollars from the government,'' the Montgomery County prosecutors wrote.

Muhammad was sentenced to death after being convicted in a sniper shooting in Manassas, Va. Lee Boyd Malvo, who also is a defendant in the case, was sentenced to life in prison for a shooting in Falls Church, Va. Malvo's Maryland trial on six murder counts is set for October.

The two are accused of killing 10 people and wounding three in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C., in 2002.
Posted by:Steve White

#11  "The whole and only purpose of this wrangling is to delay execution as long as possible."


And think of all the additional Lawers fee's paid for by you know who.
Posted by: bk   2006-01-14 16:41  

#10  There're laws in this country about mixin seafoam green and samon. It's not natural.
Posted by: 6   2006-01-14 10:40  

#9  No, it's Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan and State's Attorney Doug Gansler needing publicity for their political campaigns. Duncan is running for the Dem nomination for Governor against Baltimore mayor martin O'Malley, and Gansler is seeking higher office as well.
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-01-14 09:31  

#8  It was the Maryland families who wanted 'closure' for the murder of their loved ones. Now the shysters use that to prolong the agony - one trial for one 'closure', two trials for two 'closures'....

Who goes first? Which family will agree to go last? Years of tragic stories and remembrances...

VA shoulda fried him before they sent him to MD!
Posted by: Bobby   2006-01-14 09:10  

#7  Heh, JS. You are pretty quick for a dead guy... Vote Dhimmidonk, do ya?
Posted by: .com   2006-01-14 08:16  

#6  The whole and only purpose of this wrangling is to delay execution as long as possible.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-01-14 08:08  

#5  'Tis just a flesh wound!
Posted by: Josef Stalin   2006-01-14 07:45  

#4  You're dead, "Uncle Joe".
Posted by: .com   2006-01-14 07:27  

#3  Sentence first; trial later...
Posted by: Josef Stalin   2006-01-14 07:22  

#2  He has already been sentenced to death in VA - which knows what to do with murderers.

Shut down this PR deal and smoke the bitch.
Posted by: .com   2006-01-14 02:47  

#1  I agree, separate him in two; and give each slab a trial!
Posted by: smn   2006-01-14 02:04  

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