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Osbourne's Lawyer Says He Is Cooperating With Investigators
Aired October 27, 2002 - 18:09 ET
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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: We go now to the latest on the sniper investigation. A lawyer for Nathaniel Osbourne says Osbourne is cooperating fully with investigators and is expected to go to Maryland for questioning. Now, Osbourne waived his right to a detention hearing in Flint, Michigan today. CNN's David Mattingly has more on his link to the sniper suspects.
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DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Nathaniel Osbourne, the registered co-owner of the now infamous blue Caprice, before a federal magistrate in Flint, Michigan Sunday. While not a suspect in the D.C. area sniper shootings, his arrest deemed necessary so investigators could question him as a material witness in a case where legal turf battles continue to intensify. He's being brought to Montgomery County, Maryland, the first jurisdiction to file First Degree Murder charges against John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo.
DOUG GANSLER, MONTGOMERY CO. STATE ATTY.: That doesn't mean we're going first and that doesn't mean we're the only jurisdiction that will prosecute these people. Each and every jurisdiction will have the opportunity to prosecute these two men and to impose what penalty they would like to do.
MATTINGLY: Montgomery County Prosecutor Doug Gansler defending his decision to apparently break rank among jurisdictions, setting off a race to the courthouse. Local prosecutors in Virginia say charges will now be filed against the two suspects Monday in Spotsylvania County, the site of both a fatal and non-fatal shooting, and while six were killed in Montgomery County, Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore tells CNN: "We have Virginia victims and crimes against the people of Virginia and we want the two individuals prosecuted in Virginia court."
SCOTT THORNSLEY, MANSFIELD UNIVERSITY: Certainly, the more victims you have in a jurisdiction, the more likelihood you're going to have the death case but then you also have the issue of what's going to be the eventual outcome of the case. Is that person going to be more likely to be executed or not?
MATTINGLY: Virginia's Kilgore also telling CNN: "Our death penalty is tried, tested and ready." Virginia prosecutors could pursue capital murder charges against the 17-year-old suspect, Malvo, if he is tried as an adult. This could not happen in Maryland where the death penalty age is 18. MATTINGLY (on camera): Adding to the contentious legal scenarios, the death penalty will also be sought in cases already pending against Malvo and Muhammad in Alabama from a murder that predates the sniper attacks. Officials will continue to look to the Justice Department to act as mediator for jurisdictions as they slowly determine who has the best case and who eventually gets to go first.
David Mattingly, CNN, Montgomery County, Maryland.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired October 27, 2002 - 18:09 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: We go now to the latest on the sniper investigation. A lawyer for Nathaniel Osbourne says Osbourne is cooperating fully with investigators and is expected to go to Maryland for questioning. Now, Osbourne waived his right to a detention hearing in Flint, Michigan today. CNN's David Mattingly has more on his link to the sniper suspects.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Nathaniel Osbourne, the registered co-owner of the now infamous blue Caprice, before a federal magistrate in Flint, Michigan Sunday. While not a suspect in the D.C. area sniper shootings, his arrest deemed necessary so investigators could question him as a material witness in a case where legal turf battles continue to intensify. He's being brought to Montgomery County, Maryland, the first jurisdiction to file First Degree Murder charges against John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo.
DOUG GANSLER, MONTGOMERY CO. STATE ATTY.: That doesn't mean we're going first and that doesn't mean we're the only jurisdiction that will prosecute these people. Each and every jurisdiction will have the opportunity to prosecute these two men and to impose what penalty they would like to do.
MATTINGLY: Montgomery County Prosecutor Doug Gansler defending his decision to apparently break rank among jurisdictions, setting off a race to the courthouse. Local prosecutors in Virginia say charges will now be filed against the two suspects Monday in Spotsylvania County, the site of both a fatal and non-fatal shooting, and while six were killed in Montgomery County, Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore tells CNN: "We have Virginia victims and crimes against the people of Virginia and we want the two individuals prosecuted in Virginia court."
SCOTT THORNSLEY, MANSFIELD UNIVERSITY: Certainly, the more victims you have in a jurisdiction, the more likelihood you're going to have the death case but then you also have the issue of what's going to be the eventual outcome of the case. Is that person going to be more likely to be executed or not?
MATTINGLY: Virginia's Kilgore also telling CNN: "Our death penalty is tried, tested and ready." Virginia prosecutors could pursue capital murder charges against the 17-year-old suspect, Malvo, if he is tried as an adult. This could not happen in Maryland where the death penalty age is 18. MATTINGLY (on camera): Adding to the contentious legal scenarios, the death penalty will also be sought in cases already pending against Malvo and Muhammad in Alabama from a murder that predates the sniper attacks. Officials will continue to look to the Justice Department to act as mediator for jurisdictions as they slowly determine who has the best case and who eventually gets to go first.
David Mattingly, CNN, Montgomery County, Maryland.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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