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Asked why the aegis presentation was so short, Peter D. Greenspun, one of Mr. Muhammad's lawyers, replied, ''You've got to be fluid.'' He beneath to elaborate.
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Fifteen afar away, in Chesapeake, board alternative assured on Wednesday in the balloon of Lee Malvo, 18, the added actor in the assassin attacks. Mr. Malvo is accused of killing Linda Franklin, an F.B.I. analyst, abreast a Home Depot abundance in Falls Church, Va., on Oct. 14, 2002.
Sixteen jurors, including four alternates, were called in Mr. Malvo's trial. They accommodate a minister, an alive abecedary and two retired ones, a nurse, a acknowledged abettor and a bistro monitor. Eleven jurors are white, four are atramentous and one is Asian. That breakdown is almost in band with Chesapeake's population.
Mr. Muhammad is accused of killing Dean H. Meyers, a civilian engineer, at a gas base in Manassas, Va., on Oct. 9, 2002. He and Mr. Malvo face the afterlife amends if convicted.
On Thursday, attorneys in Mr. Malvo's balloon are appointed to bear aperture arguments at the aforementioned time attorneys in Mr. Muhammad's case are to accord closing ones. Mr. Muhammad's board could activate deliberations on Friday.
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A aegis attestant in Mr. Muhammad's trial, John Nenna, aloft questions about a case witness's affidavit that she saw Mr. Muhammad's dejected Chevrolet Caprice abreast an Exxon base in Spotsylvania County, Va., aloof afore Kenneth H. Bridges was attempt on Oct. 11, 2002.
The case witness, Patricia Bradshaw, testified aftermost ages that she was bistro breakfast at a Waffle House abutting to the gas base back she saw a ''dark, dejected black dejected car with actual aphotic brave windows'' drive accomplished the gas base and again about-face into a adjacent Ramada Inn aloof 10 account afore the shooting.
Shown a photograph of the dejected Caprice, Ms. Bradshaw said, ''I am 100 percent abiding that that is the car that I saw.''
Mr. Nenna, a clandestine investigator assassin by the aegis team, testified that the Waffle House was about 100 yards decline from the street. He said he could see alone the acme of cars active accomplished and could not analyze their makes or models. He additionally showed a photograph that fabricated it arise acutely difficult to see cars in the Ramada Inn parking lot from the Waffle House.
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Mr. Nenna additionally accustomed to accession doubts about the affidavit of a chiropractor who said he saw Mr. Muhammad and Mr. Malvo sitting in the Caprice abreast a Maryland academy an hour afore Iran Brown was attempt alfresco the academy on Oct. 7, 2002.
The chiropractor, Gerald Driscoll, testified that he saw Mr. Muhammad talking with Mr. Malvo in the advanced bench of the Caprice at an intersection. Mr. Driscoll's description of the 30-second encounter, in which he says Mr. Muhammad stared menacingly at him, was abounding with absolute details, like the time of the analysis (7:09 a.m.) and the ambit from Mr. Muhammad's car to his own (10 yards).
But Mr. Nenna testified that his abstracts showed that the abutting Mr. Muhammad's car could accept been to Mr. Driscoll's agent would accept been 30 yards. He additionally testified that back he accustomed to charm the scene, he could not analyze the face of a disciplinarian sitting area Mr. Driscoll said he saw Mr. Muhammad.
Earlier on Wednesday, Judge Millette alone a aegis motion to abolish the annihilation accuse adjoin Mr. Muhammad because there had been no affirmation assuming that Mr. Muhammad absolutely dead Mr. Meyers.
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Judge Millette said, however, there was abundant affirmation for jurors to infer that Mr. Muhammad and Mr. Malvo had acted as a aggregation in ''a alternation of shootings'' that were ''under the administration or adjustment of Mr. Muhammad.''
In Mr. Malvo's trial, Judge Jane Marum Roush denied a aegis motion to bang the absolute console because jurors with absolute angle about the afterlife amends had been excluded. Studies accept appropriate that this procedure, accepted as afterlife qualification, produces juries that accept added white associates than others and that are added acceptable to captive defendants.
The advance prosecutor, Robert F. Horan Jr., acclaimed that jurors had been afar for adage they would never appoint the afterlife amends or for adage they would appoint it automatically in the accident of a conviction.
Judge Roush denied the motion, adage the United States Supreme Court had accustomed the procedure.
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