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■: THE BAYTOWN SUN Tuesday, May 27, 1997 3-A
Defense could wrap up this week in bombing case
The Fortiers and alleged cont-
to rebound by
The defense has hsked U.S.
District Judge Richard Matsch to
admit a Justice Department
report heavily criticizing the FBI
lab and how it handled evidence
yi the bombing. The request was
pending. The Fortiers, mean-
credibility of
two govern-
ment witness-
FBI lab were to be center stage
as the defense begins to wrap up
its case this week. Lawyers for
McVeigh had planned to call up
to 40 witnesses and take up to
10 days, but got through 19 wit-
nesses in just two days last
week.
The trial was to resume today
DENVER (AP) Stung by
. testimony from their own star
. 'Witness, defense lawyers hoped
linked Timo-
thy McVeigh
to the Okla- after a three-day break.
homa City
bombing.
attorneys were
p expected to present videotapes
■/ and wiretapped conversations of
Michael and Lori Fortier to show
the couple lied repeatedly - and
T that Michael Fortier bragged that
-he was going to make money by jurors.
•C.. cooking up "fables" about the. While testifying for the prose-
: bombing. cution. they said McVeigh told
McVeigh Jones
them of his plans to bomb the
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Build-
ing months before 168 people
were killed and 500 injured
when it was shattered by a mas-
sive explosion on April 19,
1995.
It was the worst act of terror-
ism on U.S. soil and McVeigh
could face the death penalty if
convicted of murder and con-
spiracy charges.
The Fortiers told jurors that
McVeigh had cased the building
four months before the blast,
that he was enraged because of
the 1993 government siege of
the Branch Davidian compound
near Waco, Texas,, and that he
hoped the bombing would spark
a “general uprising.”
Mrs. Fortier recalled
McVeigh’s use of soup cans to
d e mon s t r a t e how b a r re 1 s o f
explosive fertilizer would be
stacked.
But jurors have also been told
of the Fortiers’ drug use. The
defense was expected to imply
-• as attorney Stephen Jones did
during cross-examination that
Michael Fortier’s testimony was
slanted to secure a lenient sen-
tence for lesser charges associat-
ed with the bombing.
Fortier has pleaded guilty to
several charges, including failure
to report the bomb plot to
authorities. He faces up to 23
years in prison, but likely will
get less because of his testimony.
The defense, which has sug-
gested to jurors that the real
bomber died in the explosion,
could use some strong testimo-
ny- _____ ___
Oh Friday, the defense called a
woman who was expected to tes-
tify that she saw someone who
didn’t fit the description of
McVeigh get out of a Ryder
truck minutes before it exploded
in front of the Murrah building.
Instead, Daina Bradley told
jurors that she saw two men get
out of the truck. One man had an
olive complexion, she said, but
the other was a white man -
and she couldn’t say it was not
McVeigh.
Ms. Bradley,'who lost two
children, her mother and one of
her legs in the blast, also test
fied that she had spent years i;i
mental institutions and has a
poor memory.
“You can tell me one thing on
week and I would forget the ne>:
week,” she said.
BuMhe defense was helped b
another witness, Nancy Kindh
The waitress at a Denny’s i
Junction City, Kan., sai
McVeigh and two other men at
there the afternoon of Easts
Sunday in April 1995.
Prosecutors have suggests
that McVeigh and a co-dcfct.
dant, Terry Nichols, were travu
ing to Oklahoma City that after
noon to drop off a getaway car.
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House gives first-round approval to right-trxlie bill
final days.
I he 1 louse voted 88-57 to adopt
the amendment before giving, the
bill first-round approval on a
voice vote.
before going to the Senate.
Longoria said his amendment
would provide that if a doctor had
an objection to a pat ent’s advance
directive, the doctoi .could still be
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FUNERAL NOTICES
‘ < NEYLAND
Robert Clifton Ney land. 74.
'died Sunday. May 25. 1997.
j - He was a Baytown resident
from 1953 to 1983 when he
* moved to Ace, Texas.
j v He had 30 years of service with
- ...Armco Steel.
' He is survived by.his wife of
50 years, Joyce Neyland of Ace:
’ daughter and son-in-law. Gloria
■ Neyland Bashrum and James ..
\ Haarmeyer; sons and daughters-
V in-law, Steve and Kathy Neyland
of Baytown, Robert and ■
Billyanne Neyland of Raleigh,
>'..N.C,; special friend, Delia;
.'. grandchildren, Tanya Neyland.
T Chad Neyland, Jenny Neyland
..Smith all of Baytown. John Ney-
,< land of Raleigh, N.C.: great-
grandchild, Cailen Michelle Ney-
land of Baytown; sister, Zada
Henderson of Dibol.
1 ■ Graveside services will be held
p' at 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 27 at
j'T Memory Gardens Cemetery.
2 In lieu of usual remembrances.
M memorials may be made to the
Leukemia Society.
Arrangements are under the
direction of Earthman Funeral
Directors.
• IRBAN
Mary Ellen ■'Nell" McKinnon
Urban, died Monday. May 26.
-1997.
She was a resident of Baytown
, for 52 years and recently resided
in The Woodlands.
She was a member of St. Jude
Thaddeus Church tn Highlands,
the Baytown Art 1.eague, and
Watercolor Art Society of Hous-
ton
She.was preceded in death by
her -husband. Albert E. Urban.,
and grandson. Leo Goodman.
She is survived by her daugh-
ters and sons-in-law. Lynn and
Jim Hale, Patty and Jerry
Kaliszewski; son and daughter-
in-law. Tim and Susan Urban;
grandchildren, Diana Davis,.
Ellen Stewart. Gerarld
Kaliszewski, Kevin Kaliszewski.
Craig Goodman, Greg Goodman,
Dr. Forrest Goodman, Jeremy
Urban: and nine great-grandchi I-
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 177, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 27, 1997, newspaper, May 27, 1997; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1176318/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.