-Caveat Lector- McVeigh's Lawyers Studying New FBI Papers Late Release of Documents Sparks Shock, Outrage By Judith Crosson Reuters DENVER (May 11) - Attorneys for Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on Friday were sifting through hundreds of documents the U.S. government said the FBI did not provide to the defense, as the possibility loomed his scheduled execution next week would be halted. The strange turn of events was set into motion on Thursday when the FBI handed over the documents to McVeigh's defense team, casting doubt over whether the execution by lethal injection would take place next Wednesday in a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, and shocking victims of the blast. The planned execution has put the international spotlight on America's use of the death penalty, and the latest disclosure was sure to raise the temperature in this already heated debate. The Justice Department said the government considered the documents would have ''no bearing'' on McVeigh's conviction for the April 1995 bombing that killed 168 people and injured hundreds of others in what has been called the most heinous act of terrorism on U.S. soil. But McVeigh's attorneys said they were shocked the material would show up so close to the execution date and were considering whether to ask for a stay of execution. ''We're considering all the options,'' McVeigh's Denver-based attorney Nathan Chambers told reporters. Other options include requesting a new trial, although seeking a stay of execution would likely be the first order of business, lawyers who follow the case said. 'ALL ROADS RUN THROUGH TERRE HAUTE' While McVeigh's attorneys were scrambling to review the police interviews, photographs, written correspondence and tapes not provided during the discovery phase of the trial, nobody was expecting McVeigh to walk out of prison a free man. In fact, his lawyers could only try to stop the execution if the 33-year-old former soldier wanted it stopped, legal analysts said. ''All roads run through Terre Haute,'' said Scott Robinson, a Denver attorney who followed McVeigh's 1997 trial in Denver. In December, McVeigh halted all his appeals and asked the court to set an execution date. Robinson said a lot depended on what was contained in the new information. If it showed others identified as the bomber, it could go to a question of McVeigh's guilt. But prosecutors could also point to McVeigh's reported confession of the bombing and his chilling referral in an interview to the deaths of 19 children in the blast as ''collateral damage,'' Robinson said. But Robinson said a court would be hard-pressed to turn down a stay of execution now that the new documents had surfaced. ''McVeigh, the man on death row, now controls in many ways his own immediate fate. And the government which did so much to take that control away from him has intentionally or negligently given it right back to him,'' CBS legal analyst Andrew Cohen said. A May 9 letter written by Justice Department attorney Sean Connelly to McVeigh's lawyers said the documents were discovered after an FBI archivist put out a request for all the material related to the case. McVeigh was informed about the new documents, his lawyer said. OUTRAGE IN OKLAHOMA Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating said reaction in Oklahoma City to the latest development in the McVeigh case was one of ''stunned disbelief.'' ''Obviously, until we know why they weren't turned over, there is a big question mark over this whole proceeding, and that obviously causes all of us in this state, at least, real concern,'' the Republican governor said in a CNN interview. People who lost relatives when the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building blew up were beside themselves. ''I guarantee you, if this boy walks, some heads are going to roll,'' said Kathleen Treanor, whose daughter, Ashley Eckles, was one of the children killed in the building's day care center. Justice Department spokeswoman Mindy Tucker said, ''While the department is confident the documents do not in any way create any reasonable doubt about McVeigh's guilt and do not contradict his repeated confessions of guilt, the department is concerned that McVeigh's attorneys were not able to review them at the appropriate time.'' The documents were also delivered to the attorney for Terry Nichols, McVeigh's former army buddy who is now serving a life sentence for planning the bombing. ''It's deeply disturbing that such a substantial amount of information that we were clearly entitled to and which the government admits should have been disclosed at the trial was not,'' attorney John Richilano said. Reut05:53 05-11-01 ============================================================================ JUST REPORTED.... JUSTICE DEPT. RECOMMEND 30 DAY DELAY IN EXECUTION OF McViegh..... Oklahoma City Bombing http://www.apfn.org/apfn/oklahoma.htm ============================================================================ Good Morning: As you hear the latest "published" accounts regarding the McVeigh case, you might appreciate hearing first from me that I've been honored with the privilege of representing two of the survivors in that disaster in a civil matter in the US District Court there in Terre Haute, Indiana. Jane Graham and V. Z. Lawton were in the building at the time of the explosions. We're seeking a stay of execution. There's no reason to expect that you'll hear much about this, especially if our requests for relief are denied. But, on the off chance that this new "revelation" affects positively the matter in which I am now directly involved, it's possible that you may, at some point, hear about this particular matter. In the event that happens, I thought you'd appreciate hearing about this from me, first. Please feel free to check the website, http://www.legalreality.com for developments. From the Home Page, take the link to the Open Letter to the President, and from there, the link at the top of that page to the Updates page. "Harmon Taylor" - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Letter to President George W. Bush Re: Stay of Execution http://www.legalreality.com/action/mcveigh/letter.html#mcveighpage ========================================================================== McVeigh 'did not act alone in Oklahoma bombing http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=71599 ========================================================================== Press statement regarding the release of the Final Report on the Oklahoma City Bombing. Contact Information: Charles Key phone# : 405-951-5900, fax 405-917-1994 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.okcbombing.org ======================================================================== SEE VIDEO - COVER-UP IN OKLAHOMA - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proof of Bombs and Cover-up - The New American July 20, 1998 http://www.thenewamerican.com/focus/okc/index.htm Oklahoma City Bombing http://www.apfn.org/apfn/oklahoma.htm "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. 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