Defense Lawyers Say Police Planted Evidence
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Lawyers for serial bombing suspect Eric Rudolph tried to show at an evidentiary hearing in Birmingham that federal agents -- not Rudolph -- may have spread traces of explosives from a deadly abortion clinic bombing in Alabama to his North Carolina home.
Prosecutors have said that witness reports, as well as traces of explosives found in Rudolph’s home, including on a towel and chair, link him to the 1998 Birmingham bombing that killed a police officer and critically injured a nurse.
Agents testified that they wore special suits during the search to prevent any contamination of potential evidence.
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