WICHITA, Kan. — Jurors must decide whether a man who openly confessed to killing a Kansas abortion provider committed murder now that defense attorneys have lost their bid for a lesser charge based on the man’s belief that he was saving unborn children.
Scott Roeder’s lawyers failed to show that Dr. George Tiller posed an imminent threat and therefore will not be allowed to ask jurors to consider a voluntary manslaughter charge, District Judge Warren Wilbert ruled Thursday. Wilbert also noted abortion is legal in Kansas.
Voluntary manslaughter required the defense to show Roeder had an unreasonable but honest belief that deadly force was justified.
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