U.S. v. NICHOLS

No. 98-1231.

169 F.3d 1255 (1999)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Terry Lynn NICHOLS, Defendant-Appellant, Marsha Kight; Martin Cash; National Organization for Victim Assistance, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

February 26, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Tigar, (Susan L. Foreman, Adam Thurschwell, and Jane B. Tigar, with him on the briefs), Boulder, Colorado, for Defendant-Appellant.

Sean Connelly, Special Attorney to the U.S. Attorney General (Patrick M. Ryan, United States Attorney, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with him on the brief), Denver, Colorado, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Paul G. Cassell, University of Utah College of Law, Salt Lake City, Utah; Robert F. Hoyt, Karan Bhatia, Reginald J. Brown, and Jennifer Grishkin, Willmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C., on the brief for Amici Curiae.

Before PORFILIO, BALDOCK, and BRORBY, Circuit Judges.


PORFILIO, Circuit Judge.

Terry Lynn Nichols appeals his conviction and sentence after having been found guilty of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, 18 U.S.C. § 2332a, and eight counts of involuntary manslaughter, §§ 1114, 1112. The jury acquitted him on counts of using a weapon of mass destruction, § 2332a, destruction by explosives, § 844(f), and eight counts each of first and second-degree murder, §§ 1114, 1111. The...

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