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- NATION, Page 27American NotesCRIMERevenge with A Stamp
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- In December 1989, mail bombs killed Judge Robert S. Vance of
- the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals at his home in Alabama and
- Robert E. Robinson, a civil rights attorney, at his office in
- Georgia. Last week Walter Leroy Moody Jr. was convicted of all 71
- federal charges stemming from the slayings at a trial in St. Paul.
- Against the advice of his lawyers, Moody took the witness stand
- to provide a rambling account of his sex life and blame the Ku
- Klux Klan for the killings.
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- Prosecutors contended that Moody, an amateur scientist
- from Rex, Ga., was also responsible for bombs that were
- intercepted at the federal court in Atlanta and the N.A.A.C.P.
- office in Jacksonville, for a tear-gas bomb that exploded in the
- Atlanta office of the N.A.A.C.P. and for threatening letters to
- judges and TV stations. Prosecutors said Moody tried to make the
- bombings appear racially motivated but that he really wanted to
- damage the court system because of a 1972 conviction for bomb
- possession. "Retaliation is a way of life for Mr. Moody," said
- Assistant U.S. Attorney Louis Freeh, "and the court was only his
- last target."
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