FBI Appeals Order Allowing Deposition of Okla. Bombing Conspirator
The FBI is asking a federal appeals court to reverse a judge’s order allowing a lawyer to take the videotaped deposition of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols.
The order permits Salt Lake City lawyer Jesse Trentadue to take the deposition of Nichols and death-row inmate David Paul Hammer, who says Timothy McVeigh confided in him in lengthy conversations before his execution for the bombing, the Salt Lake Tribune reports.
Trentadue believes his brother died in prison during an interrogation by authorities who mistakenly believed he was a bombing conspirator. Trentadue claims interrogators accidentally strangled his brother, Kenneth, with a set of handcuffs; the government says Kenneth, a convicted bank robber, took his own life, the story says.
The FBI is appealing the deposition order to the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
