Reactions to the Scott Roeder verdict from both sides of abortion debate
The two sides in the abortion debate agreed on one thing Friday: A Sedgwick County jury delivered the only verdict it could in the Scott Roeder murder trial.
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The two sides in the abortion debate agreed on one thing Friday: A Sedgwick County jury delivered the only verdict it could in the Scott Roeder murder trial.
The guilty verdict was read at 11:05 a.m. Friday. But prosecutors and defense lawyers agreed that the Scott Roeder murder trial ended at 4:55 p.m. Thursday.
District Attorney Nola Foulston said prosecutors filed numerous requests to try and keep abortion out of Scott Roeder's trial. It was a case of first-degree murder of Wichita abortion provider George Tiller, Foulston said. But abortion itself shouldn’t have been on trial, she said. A jury convicted Roeder of first-degree murder this morning after only 37 minutes of deliberations.
In an afternoon session with lawyers, Judge Wilbert addressed motions to quash subpoenas and other legal issues.
FBI Special Agent Michael Miller went with Denton Murray to David Roeder's house. Miller and Murray went to Roeder's house around 4 p.m. on June 1. The house sat on the Shawnee/Wabaunsee county line. Miller said he found shell casings in the woods around David Roeder's house.
Gary Hoepner said he was stunned when a man walked into the lobby of Reformation Lutheran Church and shot George Tiller in the head.
Judge Warren Wilbert has excused the jury for the evening, admonishing them not to read the next issue of GQ, which includes a story headlined "Savior vs. Savior" about Scott Roeder and George Tiller.
Two minutes and three seconds after the first 911 call, Wichita police had the name of a suspect in the George Tiller shooting. A witness relayed the tag number on the getaway car to a dispatcher who matched the car to Scott Roeder and forwarded his name to police.
On the anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that gave constitutional protection for abortions, prosecutors this morning will begin presenting evidence that Scott Roeder killed George Tiller because he performed them.
WICHITA — On the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the United States, prosecutors Friday morning will begin presenting evidence that Scott Roeder killed one of the doctors performing the procedure.
Lawyers are closing in on having selected the number of jurors they need to move to the public phase of the first-degree murder trial of Scott Roeder.
Lawyers said they interviewed eight prospective jurors and passed four of them for cause this morning in the first-degree murder trial of Scott Roeder.
As Phill Kline waits to testify in the trial of a man accused of killing an abortion provider, the former Kansas Attorney General was ordered to appear before the state ethics commission because of his investigation into that doctor.
Jury selection in the first-degree murder trial of Scott Roeder is scheduled to resume Tuesday.
Fearing jurors may think they are in danger during the murder trial of a man charged with killing Wichita abortion provider George Tiller, Scott Roeder's defense asked Friday for the trial judge to issue special instructions when panelists are questioned as a group.
Judge Warren Wilbert's words in a Wichita courtroom are bouncing from national blogs to the Harvard Law School to other continents.
Privacy doesn’t guarantee honesty, a jury expert said.
After news outlets, including The Wichita Eagle, petitioned the Kansas Supreme Court, a judge agreed Wednesday to release a jury questionnaire and open portions of jury selection in the first-degree murder trial of Scott Roeder.
WICHITA — After news outlets, including The Wichita Eagle, petitioned the Kansas Supreme Court, a judge agreed today to release a blank jury questionnaire and open up portions of jury selection in the first-degree murder trial of Scott Roeder.
WICHITA — A Sedgwick County district judge today refused to prevent Scott Roeder from pursuing a defense of voluntary manslaughter.
Prosecutors today will make a final attempt to stop Scott Roeder from telling a jury he killed Wichita abortion provider George Tiller in defense of the unborn.
WICHITA — Prosecutors asked a judge this morning to prohibit Scott Roeder from using voluntary manslaughter in his defense during his first-degree murder trial in the shooting of George Tiller.
When Scott Roeder's murder trial begins Monday, the question won't be whether or not he killed George Tiller.
Although Phill Kline condemned violence, he may not be able to avoid being linked to the killing of the abortion provider he pursued as Kansas attorney general.
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.
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.
Scott Roeder confessed Monday to killing Wichita abortion provider George Tiller, saying he had no regrets because "pre-born children were in imminent danger."
A television drama loosely based on the slaying of abortion provider George Tiller is rubbing nerves on both sides of the abortion divide in Wichita.
Slain Wichita abortion provider George Tiller was honored posthumously in Washington over the weekend with one of the highest honors given by the International Federation of Planned Parenthood Foundation, the group announced Monday.
The suspect in the killing of abortion provider George Tiller is in talks with a prominent attorney who represents anti-abortion protesters and has long advocated justifiable homicide as a legal defense in such cases.
A Virginia anti-abortion activist has sent a scathing letter to the church of slain Wichita abortion provider George Tiller, telling pastors they "brought damnation onto yourselves" for failing to rebuke the "babykilling."
They met in each other's homes on Saturday, their Sabbath, for a potluck dinner and Bible study sessions.
The list of those visiting and communicating with the man accused of killing Wichita abortion provider George Tiller reads like a who's who of anti-abortion militants.
WICHITA — Gary Hoepner was grabbing a doughnut at the snack table at his church with George Tiller when he saw a man walk up, put a gun to the Wichita abortion doctor's head and pull the trigger, Hoepner testified in Sedgwick County District Court this morning.
For the first time since Wichita abortion provider George Tiller was shot to death inside his church, the public will hear details today about what happened that morning. Return to Kansas.com today for continuing coverage of the hearing.
In a series of letters, the man accused of killing George Tiller attempts to convince his young son that a heathen government must be resisted.
The man charged with killing Wichita abortion provider George Tiller said in an interview he's angry about a major anti-abortion group he thinks has abandoned him.
Three Wichita-based anti-abortion groups say they have received death threats in response to last month's killing of George Tiller.