Jury Selection to Start in (Eric) Rudolph Trial

[underpants]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/eric_rudolph

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Court officials have summoned about 500 people for preliminary jury selection in the trial of Eric Rudolph, who is accused in the 1998 bombing of an abortion clinic in which a police officer was killed.

Former government attorney Don Cochran said prosecutors will try to weed out people who strongly dislike the federal government, an attitude Rudolph has been described as sharing.

He has been linked to anti-abortion groups. But Cochran said abortion opponents are typically conservative and "are generally considered to be good prosecution jurors."


Rudolph is also charged in the fatal bombing at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, the bombing of a lesbian bar and the bombing of a building that housed an Atlanta abortion clinic in 1997.

U.S. District Judge Lynwood Smith has indicated the Rudolph case will not begin until the end of the Scrushy case, which could last through May.

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. hasn't he been in custody for years now?

What ever happened to "speedy trials" as guaranteed by the Constitution?

www.cafepress.com/blackoutbush

[shawn703]

2. Almost two years

Does seem like quite a while.

[gratuitous]

4. 2004 election safely over

No chance for any messy associations with the Bush administration and their Culture of Death masquerading as the Culture of Life.

[underpants]

5. Ashcroft did't want to prosecute one of his people

Anti-government
"Pro Life"
At least some ties to white supremicists

[UCLA Dem]

3. Love how these "pro-lifers" show how much they value life.

[reality based]

6. Will the MSM Cable Channels Cover This 24/7?

O dear Nancy Grace, how I long for the certainty of your sour sneers of outrage! O Larry King, bring to us the peremptory judgments of the blonde prosecutors and the avuncular vengeance of Dominick Dunn! May the cold glint in the eyes of the Foxian hounds of justice be matched by the virtuous indignation of Fair Joe, Laurie Klausutis' last employer. Forgive me DUers, for I have sinned, watching the cable whores.