LifeNews.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Wichita, KS (LifeNews.com) -- The defense attorney for former militia activist Scott Roeder, who is charged with killing late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller, is using the necessity defense. That tells the court Roeder feels compelled to kill Tiller because the lives of unborn children were in danger had he not killed him.
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Attorneys for Scott Roeder, the man accused of killing Dr. George Tiller, may not be able to use the defense that Roeder acted “out of necessity.” According to the Associated Press: [Roeder] told The Associated Press on Nov. 9 that he shot Tiller to protect unborn children and he planned to present a necessity defense [...]
Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Roeder may introduce evidence showing that shooting Tiller prevented future harm By Roxana Hegeman / The Associated Press WICHITA, Kan. -- Seemingly contradicting his own public statements, an attorney for the man accused of gunning down a Kansas abortion provider...
Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
By Ron Sylvester / The Wichita Eagle Attacking statements made by the Sedgwick County district attorney and stories in The Wichita Eagle, public defenders for Scott Roeder this week asked for his first-degree murder trial to be held elsewhere. Sedgwick...
Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
WICHITA -- A Sedgwick County District Judge has set a hearing next month to determine whether Scott Roeder's first-degree murder trial will proceed here or elsewhere. Judge Warren Wilbert has scheduled Dec. 22 to hear arguments on a motion filed...
Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Prosecutors Oppose New Venue For Roeder's TrialA Dec. 22 hearing has been set on the issueKansas City Star WICHITA -- Prosecutors are opposing a change of venue for the trial of the man who has publicly admitted killing George Tiller to save "unborn children." Court documents made public Friday in the case against Scott Roeder argue defense attorneys have offered no evidence to...
Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The Wichita Eagle Scott Roeder said his defense will be that his actions were necessary because "pre-born children were in imminent danger" from abortions performed at Tiller's clinic in Wichita. People who support abortion were heartened that Roeder confessed but...
Otto 子's War Room (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
... interesting question. If terrorist groups can be held responsible for what Hasan did, what about Scott Roeder? He was in contact with a member of Operation Rescue. Some anti-abortion fanatics have actually tried to raise bail for Roeder through the sale of terrorist manuals and other items on eBay. The Army of God web page starts off with the headline: “American Hero...
Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Scott Roeder's lawyer said Tuesday that the defense his client had hoped for in the murder trial of a Wichita abortion provider isn't legal. On Monday, Roeder publicly confessed to killing George Tiller to reporters from the Kansas City Star...
Salon.com (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Roughly a month before the shooting death of Dr. George Tiller, the FBI received an anonymous letter warning that suspected killer Scott Roeder "would do physical harm" to the abortion provider, the Associated Press reports. The letter didn't offer a time-line, specifics or incriminating details -- just that the anti-abortion activist was going to hurt the late doctor. Here's...
Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The Associated Press via NY Times The Federal Bureau of Investigation says that more than a month before the abortion provider Dr. George R. Tiller was shot and killed, it received an anonymous letter warning about the man now charged...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The month before Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller was gunned down, the FBI received a letter warning authorities that Scott Roeder was a threat to Tiller and other abortion providers, agency officials said Friday. The letter, written in April and sent anonymously to the Kansas City FBI office, said that Roeder “has the potential to be a domestic terrorist”...
Kansas City Star (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The month before Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller was gunned down, the FBI received a letter warning authorities that Scott Roeder was a threat to Tiller and other abortion providers, agency officials said Friday. The letter, written in April and sent anonymously to the Kansas City FBI office, said that Roeder “has the potential to be a domestic terrorist”...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The Federal Bureau of Investigation says that more than a month before Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed, it received a letter warning them about the man now charged in the case.
Pro-Life News (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
The Associated Press WICHITA -- Lawyers for a man who has publicly admitted killing a Kansas abortion provider have asked a judge to move his trial out of Wichita, arguing potential jurors have been subject to such vast pretrial publicity...
