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Kansas Supreme Court hears case of Roeder, killer of abortion doctor George Tiller [View all]
Posted originally in LBN by Redfairen
http://m.cjonline.com/news/2014-01-29/kansas-supreme-court-hears-case-roeder-killer-abortion-doctor-george-tiller
Kansas Supreme Court hears case of Roeder, killer of abortion doctor George Tiller
Source: Topeka Capital-Journal
Kansas Supreme Court justices focused almost exclusively Wednesday on whether jurors hearing the first-degree murder trial of Scott Roeder should have heard a self-defense of others instruction during his 2010 trial.
Justices asked public appellate defender Rachel Pickering whether circumstances in the shooting of George Tiller, who performed late-term abortions, was similar to hypotheticals where a doctor is shot to death after he turned off a ventilator of a terminal patient at the request of the family and the shooting of a CEO of a tobacco company whose products caused the deaths of smokers.
In both hypotheticals, the shooter thinks he is justified to use deadly force to defend a hospital patient.
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