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Reports thatbombing suspect Timothy McVeighmade a jailhouse confession taking responsibility for theOklahoma bombingsimply are not credible, says the sheriff of the Perry, Okla. jail. A prisoner in that jail claims McVeigh confided in him. The sheriff notes the prisoner is a twelve-time convicted felon, and has a history of lying.McVeigh lawyer Steven Joneswas quick to discount the story, which was first reported in this morning's New York Times. Making his second appearance in as many days on NBC's Today show, Jones said that such prisoner tales of confessions shouldn't be taken seriously. Jones has been pressing...
...clowns tumbling out of a circus car. An Australian tourist in Ontario was dragged from his car at gunpoint and questioned for four hours by authorities; a hitchhiker was detained in Ohio; a man driving through Georgia in a BMW with Oklahoma plates was stopped by a local sheriff's deputy. The most colorful detainees, Gary Allen Land and Robert Jacks -- two drifters whose travels mysteriously paralleled McVeigh's in the days before the bombing -- were arrested on Tuesday in Carthage, Missouri, and released 18 hours later. "They were morons, you know," Jacks said of the FBI last week. Still...
Lexington Country Sheriff James R. Metts saidyesterday he was disappointed that the criminaljustice system had allowed Grant to serve just sixmonths...
...jury form. (Harris and her husband both deny that any domestic abuse ever took place.) She immediately proceeded to give interviews that portrayed the Simpson panel as a sandbox teeming with childish feuds and racist infighting. Among other things, Harris alleged that the guards from the Los Angeles County sheriff's office gave preferential treatment to the white jurors. Ito halted testimony to look into her charges, and last week, when juror No. 453 also accused the guards of insensitivity, the judge summarily replaced three of them, despite protests from law-enforcement officials...
...they would not step into the jury box until Judge Lance Ito agreed to meet with them. The panelists were protesting Ito's dismissal of three of their guards in the wake of allegations that the guards were giving some jurors preferential treatment. Ito met privately with lawyers and sheriff's officials and then began to individually interview each juror. The interviews are expected to conclude Monday. The testimony of police evidence technician Andrea Mazzola, set to resume today, has been postponed until Tuesday. Five jurors did not take part in the protest. It is not yet clear which...