Whats Next for McVeigh?
– June 7, 2001 By James L. Hirsen, J.D., Ph.D. contributor to Newsmax.com Once again, it looks as though the U.S. Supreme Court is going to be thrust into the squalid media spotlight. No, there’s not another election matter to adjudicate or social issue to reconstruct. But public scrutiny, and attendant anxiety, will be every bit as great as in previous high profile cases, if not more so. Unless Timothy McVeigh changes course again, his attorneys will appeal U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch’s ruling, which denied a delay in McVeigh’s execution. The appeal will be filed in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Which ever way the appellate court comes down, the losing side is likely to take the matter to the highest court in the nation to make the final determination on whether McVeigh is executed on schedule for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. In the recent district court ruling, Judge Matsch made it a point to emphasize that “we’re not here for the purpose of trying the FBI.
