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- <text id=94TT0276>
- <title>
- Mar. 14, 1994: Sentenced:Michael Griffin
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Mar. 14, 1994 How Man Began
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 26
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- <p> SENTENCED. MICHAEL GRIFFIN, 32, chemical worker; to life imprisonment,
- with a minimum of 25 years before parole; for the shooting last
- March 10 of Dr. David Gunn, as Gunn arrived at a clinic to perform
- abortions; in Pensacola, Florida. Griffin at first confessed
- to the crime. His lawyers later cast doubt that he had pulled
- the trigger but suggested that if he had, it was because Griffin
- had been "brainwashed" by antiabortion activists, including
- John Burt of Rescue America, who had shown Griffin and his wife
- antiabortion videotapes and dismembered fetuses. Gunn's death
- became an effective symbol for those who felt the antiabortion
- movement had grown too violent. The jury deliberated only two
- hours and 40 minutes.
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- </body>
- </article>
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