SON OF TERRY NICHOLS: Officers detail incident/Prosecutors going too far

[NVMojo]

Joshua Nichols grew up in the shadow of the crimes of his father, Terry Nichols, one of the two men convicted in the deaths of 168 people in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

Terry Nichols is serving a life sentence in prison, and at the Regional Justice Center on Monday, 23-year-old Joshua Nichols was fighting to try to avoid a long prison sentence of his own as he went on trial, accused of trying to kill two Las Vegas police officers last fall.

Officer Craig O'Neill told jurors that he noticed Joshua Nichols driving what the officer suspected was a stolen vehicle at a Chevron station at Tropicana Avenue and Rainbow Boulevard on Oct. 2, 2005.

When O'Neill and his partner, Todd Mueller, approached him outside of the vehicle in the parking lot of the gasoline station, he disobeyed their orders to stop and started walking at a fast pace toward the stolen Toyota Supra with car keys in hand, the officers said.


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http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Mar-21-Tue-2006/news/6473941.html

[bluerum]

1. jeez, nice family. nt

[High Plains]

2. Yes, but still another example of prosecutorial overzealousness

Attempted murder of two police officers? For trying to drive away?

[jimbot]

3. I agree that it is probably not attempted murder but...

"trying to drive away" is a little underexplanatory...
How about trying to drive away while dragging one officer from the passenger door while another was hanging down in the sunroof...if either of the officers had died as a result, you can bet he would be charged with murder and, IMHO, rightly so.