Posts Tagged ‘Brian Nichols’
VIDEO: Nichols case retrospective
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009, 4:00 pm / No Comments
PHOTOS: Judge sentences Nichols to life
Saturday, December 13th, 2008, 12:38 pm / No Comments
A judge on Saturday sentenced the man who killed four people in a brazen courthouse escape to multiple life sentences with no chance of parole and hundreds more years on more than fifty charges.
Brian Nichols, 37, was found guilty last month of murder and dozens of other counts for the March 2005 rampage that led from a downtown courthouse to an Atlanta neighborhood and ended with his capture the next day in a suburban county.
He will likely die in prison after Superior Court Judge James Bodiford handed down the maximum sentence on each charge, to run consecutively.
“If there was any more I could give you, I would,” the judge said.
PHOTOS: The Nichols jury fails to reach verdict
Saturday, December 13th, 2008, 11:01 am / No Comments
The Atlanta courthouse gunman who killed a judge and three other people avoided a death sentence on December 12, 2008 when jurors failed to reach a unanimous decision on his sentence.
Prosecutors had urged jurors to sentence Nichols to death after he was convicted last month of murder and dozens of other counts in the 2005 killings. The 37-year-old was on trial for rape when he grabbed a guard’s gun and fatally shot the judge, a court reporter and a sheriff’s deputy at the courthouse. He fled and killed a federal agent in an Atlanta neighborhood.
Nichols sat emotionless throughout the hearing, while relatives of the victims looked downtrodden.
PHOTOS: Jury reaches verdict in Nichols case
Friday, November 7th, 2008, 5:49 pm / No Comments
Brian Nichols, who launched a deadly courthouse shooting spree during his rape trial, killing a judge and three others, was convicted of murder by a jury Friday more than three years after he turned the city’s seat of justice into a crime scene.
PHOTOS: Nichols trial closing arguments
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008, 3:56 pm / No Comments
Prosecutors called for a swift and just verdict against the alleged gunman in a deadly courthouse shooting spree as they delivered closing arguments to jurors who will soon decide whether the defendant was insane at the time of the killings.
Arguments were set to end Wednesday in the trial against Brian Nichols, who could face the death penalty for the 2005 rampage that began in a downtown Atlanta courthouse and left a judge, a court reporter, a deputy and a federal agent dead.
PHOTOS: Nichols trial, day 3
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008, 2:00 pm / No Comments
The Brian Nichols trial entered its third day of proceedings Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008 at the Atlanta Municipal Court Building. Nichols is accused of killing three people at the Fulton County Courthouse and the murder of a U.S. Customs agent in north Atlanta in 2005.
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PHOTOS: Nichols trial, day 2
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008, 3:19 pm / No Comments
Former Fulton prosecutor Gayle Abramson Csehy testified during the second day of court room proceedings at the Atlanta Municipal Court Building. The long awaited and expensive trial got underway this week. Nichols who is accused of killing three people at the Fulton County Court House and the murder of an ICE agent in North Atlanta on March 11th, 2005, could face the death penalty if convicted. Judge James Bodiford is pressing forward with a schedule to see the trial’s end before Christmas.
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See related article, “Prosecutor in rape case testifies at Brian Nichols’ trial” (Sept. 24, 2008)
PHOTOS: Opening arguments in courthouse shooting trial
Monday, September 22nd, 2008, 4:38 pm / No Comments
After more than three years court gets underway early Monday morning September 22, 2008 for the Brian Nichols trial. Nichols, an accused rapist, escaped from the Fulton County Courthouse and went on an alleged shooting spree in 2005. Nichols, 36, is pleading not guilty by reason of insanity.
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PHOTOS: First day of courthouse shooting trial
Thursday, July 10th, 2008, 4:16 pm / 1 Comment
Jury selection in the much-delayed trial of accused courthouse killer Brian Nichols got underway Thursday at the Fulton County courthouse, a day after Nichols’ attorneys made it official that they will use an insanity defense. Superior Court Judge James Bodiford, the second judge to preside over the case, opened the proceedings by speaking to potential jurors about 10:05 a.m.. “This is an unusual case because you’ve been called in on several occasions,” Bodiford told them, alluding to the delays in selection. Bodiford also said he will not sequester the jury during the trial. (All photos by John Spink/AJC/POOL)
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PHOTOS: Nichols hearing on July 8, 2008
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008, 1:02 pm / No Comments
Accused courthouse shooter Brian Nichols attended a pretrial hearing in Atlanta at the Fulton County Courthouse on Tuesday, July 8, 2008.
See related article: “Judge: Expect long hours for Nichols trial” (July 8, 2008)
