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The
FBI Finds Explosives in Terry Nichols' Old Home.
While pursuing a
tip that evidence was missed almost a decade ago, FBI agents searched
the former home of convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry
Nichols. FBI officials said Friday (April 1, 2005) that blasting caps
and other explosive materials believed to be related to the 1995 attack
were found, buried in a crawl space of the Herington, Kansas home. That
space apparently was not checked by FBI agents during the numerous searches
of the property in the original investigation of Terry Nichols and Timothy
McVeigh.
The
United States Supreme Court
refused to intervene in the Terri Schiavo case for a sixth
time late Wednesday - March 30, 005. Taking
less than two hours to reject her parents' request that the feeding
tube for their brain-damaged daughter be reinserted the High Court ruled
against intervening. The next morning (March 31, 2005) the brain-damaged
woman died 13 days after her feeding tube was removed. Commentaries
expect legislative action in this area will continue to be debated in
the US Congress.
Superstar
Lawyer Johnnie Cochran died in Los Angeles, California, on Tuesday,
March 29, 2005, at the age of 67. Johnnie
L. Cochran Jr., (1937-2005) became a legal
superstar after helping clear O.J. Simpson during a sensational murder
trial. In the trial closing, Cochran uttered perhaps his most famous
quote "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit". Jurors found the
Hall of Fame football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his ex-wife
Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Johnnie
Cochran was born on October 2, 1937, in Shreveport, Louisiana. He was
the great-grandson of former slaves, grandson of a sharecropper and
son of an insurance salesman. Cochran came to Los Angeles with his family
in 1949, and became one of two dozen black students integrated into
Los Angeles High School in the 50's. After graduating from UCLA, he
attended Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, and was admitted to the California
bar on January 10, 1963 (Bar No. 33334). The legal career of Cochran
will be noted as one marked by "celebrity" cases and clientele.
But he and his family were most proud of the work he did on behalf of
those in the community.
The Cochran Firm was founded
by its senior law partner, Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Cochran
was said to be America's most famous criminal lawyer. The national law
firm that was established by Cochran on Wednesday said it will continue
to call itself The Cochran Firm. The head of the law firm's Miami branch
office stated that Cochran's death would not weaken growth plans of
the office or the law firm's planned expansion in Florida.
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