A federal court in Arizona has indicted 49-Jared Lee Loughna charges for the killing of Tucson, on 8 January. Young, 22, shot at close range against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, which seriously injured during a rally of this. Turning his gun into the crowd and killed six people and left 13 injured people among those who attended the event.
The charges could carry the death penalty if convicted, according to prosecutor Dennis K. Burke. Using a new legal argument, the indictment was amended to add another 46 charges against Loughna considering that the crime was committed on federal land protected because it was a meeting of the congressman with his constituents, as if it were an act within Congress.
Loughna was charged initially in Phoenix on three counts of attempted murder against the congresswoman and two of his assistants, who, according to authorities were meeting their federal duties when they received the shots. The letter adds new charges for the killing and injury of victims who were not employees of the federal administration and the attendees who were not injured.
On Wednesday appear to be processed by the new charges before the same federal district court presiding Tucson one of his victims, Judge John Roll. Some legal experts have warned that the strategy of the prosecution's case could be risky because it could lead to appeals. "I'm not familiar with that legal theory," said Aitan D.
Goelman, a former prosecutor who helped in the federal trial against the perpetrators of a terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. "In Oklahoma, McVeigh and Nichols accuse of eight counts of federal agents killed. Do not accuse of 168 counts of murder for the other 160 people who were in the federal building," he stated. 
The charges could carry the death penalty if convicted, according to prosecutor Dennis K. Burke. Using a new legal argument, the indictment was amended to add another 46 charges against Loughna considering that the crime was committed on federal land protected because it was a meeting of the congressman with his constituents, as if it were an act within Congress.
Loughna was charged initially in Phoenix on three counts of attempted murder against the congresswoman and two of his assistants, who, according to authorities were meeting their federal duties when they received the shots. The letter adds new charges for the killing and injury of victims who were not employees of the federal administration and the attendees who were not injured.
On Wednesday appear to be processed by the new charges before the same federal district court presiding Tucson one of his victims, Judge John Roll. Some legal experts have warned that the strategy of the prosecution's case could be risky because it could lead to appeals. "I'm not familiar with that legal theory," said Aitan D.
Goelman, a former prosecutor who helped in the federal trial against the perpetrators of a terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. "In Oklahoma, McVeigh and Nichols accuse of eight counts of federal agents killed. Do not accuse of 168 counts of murder for the other 160 people who were in the federal building," he stated.
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