Lawyer Says D.C. Sniper Trusted Him the Most; Details Will Be in the Book
Baltimore lawyer J. Wyndal Gordon says he had a special bond with convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, and he plans to write a book about his onetime client.
Gordon was a stand-by counsel for Muhammad in a trial for six of the sniper killings, and he attended Muhammad’s execution for a different murder in Virginia, the Baltimore Sun reports.
According to Gordon, Muhammad told him before the execution, “I love you, brother,” the story says. Gordon told Muhammad he loved him back.
Gordon maintains that Muhammad was wrongly convicted. He tells the Baltimore Sun that his book will present Muhammad’s story “without the filters and rules of evidence that prevented him from getting things in court.”
“He didn’t really trust anybody else like he trusted me,” Gordon told the newspaper. “I know his words. I have his writings. I know everything.”
The lawyer who sought certiorari for Muhammad’s case with the U.S. Supreme Court has a different view. Jonathan Sheldon believes Muhammad was “delusional” about his innocence and Gordon’s book is inappropriate.
“I think it’s really, really misguided to use a relationship with an executed client to make a book for profit,” Sheldon told the Sun.
