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Jury Deliberation Begins in Nichols Case in Georgia

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"Nichols' lawyers fight to the end," is the report in today's Fulton County Daily Report.  It's written by Greg Land and Andy Peters.Judge James G. Bodiford on Monday afternoon rejected a request by Brian G. Nichols' defense lawyers to postpone until Tuesday their closing argument on their client's punishment for the Fulton County Courthouse murders.With the jury outside of the courtroom, defense lawyer Henderson Hill argued that Senior Assistant District Attorney Clinton K. Rucker went too long in the state' s closing arguments, forcing Hill to start his closing argument after 3 p.m. Hill told Bodiford that the jury would be physically tired after sitting through weeks of trial and also emotionally spent after listening to the prosecution's graphic description of Nichols' killing of a judge and others...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on December 09, 2008 (boomark / email).