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    Tree of Life shooting trial in Pittsburgh will likely begin in spring 2023, judge says

    The defendant in the case, Robert Bowers, has been indicted on more than 60 federal charges

    By An-Li Herring
    WESA News

    A federal judge said Wednesday that a trial likely will begin next spring in the prosecution of the man accused of killing 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill more than three and a half years ago.

    U.S. District Judge Robert Colville predicted that it will be “arguably eminently reasonable” to start the proceeding between April and June of 2023. He added, however, that it might be “doable” to begin in March of next year. It would be “perhaps unnecessarily patient,” by contrast, to wait until July.

    Colville cautioned that his proposed timeline reflected his thoughts Wednesday and that his opinion could change depending on input from government and defense attorneys. They met with him Wednesday to discuss the status of the death penalty case.

    He advised the lawyers to be ready to discuss the trial date at his next meeting with them, scheduled for Aug. 15. At that time, he said, they should share how long they expect the trial to last and how they want to structure the proceeding.

    “All counsel … need to prioritize this case from March to August of 2023,” he said Wednesday. “I’m not sure what part of that window we’re looking at [for the trial]. But there are going to be a lot of moving parts and a lot of people who are going to need to be in one location.”

    The defendant in the case, Robert Bowers, has been indicted on more than 60 federal charges. He is accused of committing hate crimes, obstruction of religious belief and the use of a firearm during a crime of violence, among other offenses.

    Although Colville had previously planned to wait until December to set a trial date, the prosecution asked him to expedite the decision. On Wednesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Soo Song said the accelerated schedule will give the shooting’s victims and their family members more time to prepare for the proceeding.

    “Many victims will also be fact witnesses,” she said. “And we believe that the most meaningful way to guarantee that the victims can be present at trial and bear witness at trial, if they are witnesses, and prevent further delay is to set the trial date [in August].”

    She predicted that attorneys will resolve ongoing disputes regarding evidence and jury selection by the end of the year.

    Assistant Federal Public Defender Elisa Long disagreed.

    “While we have done a significant amount of work, there’s significantly more to do,” she said.

    COVID-19 has interfered with that work by causing illness and travel restrictions that have sidelined people involved in the investigation and litigation, Long said. She also noted that the government turned over a “voluminous” amount of disclosures just this month.

    Prosecutors objected to that characterization, saying Wednesday that they provided the bulk of the evidence they could present at trial as long ago as 2019 and 2020.

    While the defense said Wednesday that its expert witnesses need more time to review the information the government provided earlier this month, Colville warned that he would grant only extra “days, not weeks.”

    https://www.witf.org/2022/06/30/tree...23-judge-says/
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    Trial date set for accused Tree of Life gunman

    By Taylor Hall
    WPXI News

    PITTSBURGH — A trial date has been set for the man accused of killing 11 people and injuring six others in the Tree of Life synagogue shooting.

    According to court paperwork, Robert Bowers is set to go on trial starting April 24, 2023.

    The trial will begin with jury selection, followed by opening statements and testimony.

    Bowers faces 63 federal charges after the 2018 shooting, and the government is seeking the death penalty.

    A status conference hearing is set for Oct. 6.

    This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.

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    Attorneys argue about witness list in Tree of Life shooting; trial scheduled to start in April

    By Rick Earle
    WPIX-TV News

    PITTSBURGH — A federal judge said today that the trial of Robert Bowers is scheduled to start on April 24, 2023. Bowers is accused of shooting and killing 11 people in the racially-motivated attack at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill in 2018. Attorneys for Bowers and the federal government appeared at a status conference this morning.

    The judge said he plans to hear testimony daily from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. or 4:30 p.m. The judge said he would like to take some Fridays off so the court can conduct other business. The trial is expected to last for three months.

    Attorneys for Bowers told the judge they plan to challenge the composition of the jury pool. They didn’t discuss specifics, only saying they will file a motion addressing that shortly.

    Attorneys for the federal government said the two sides have failed to reach an agreement about when to submit their lists of witnesses and exhibits. The prosecution suggested that both sides should turn them in at the same time, but the defense did not agree. The judge indicated he would likely hold a hearing on that request.

    Jury selection is set to begin on April 24, 2023. The judge praised both sides for their work to reach this point.

    Prospective jurors will begin arriving at the federal courthouse in Pittsburgh in early March to fill out questionnaires.

    At this point, jurors will not be sequestered.

    The federal government has indicated that they plan to pursue the death penalty in the case.

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    Tree of Life synagogue shooting: Robert Bowers trial on schedule, jury selection begins in April

    By WPXI.com News Staff

    Channel 11 has confirmed the trial is on schedule for Tree of Life synagogue shooting suspect Robert Bowers.

    Bowers is accused of killing 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill four years ago.

    The judge confirmed in-person jury selection for the trial will begin on April 24.

    There are a few motions related to the trial that the judge plans to rule on in the next few weeks.

    He said he’s hoping to have the rest of the deadlines for the case set by tomorrow.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/tree-life...035928679.html
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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    Judge rules Tree of Life death penalty sentencing would occur in 2 phases

    By Megan Guza
    The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    If Robert Bowers is found guilty later this year of killing 11 worshippers inside a Squirrel Hill synagogue in 2018, his sentencing will be broken into two separate phases, a judge ruled this week.

    The trial for Mr. Bowers, accused in the Oct. 27, 2018, mass shooting at the synagogue where three congregations — Tree of Life or L’Simcha, Dor Hadash and New Light — were holding Shabbat services, is set to begin in April.

    Eleven were killed in the shooting: Joyce Fienberg, Richard Gottfried, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, David and Cecil Rosenthal, Bernice and Sylvan Simon, Daniel Stein, Melvin Wax and Irving Younger. Two other worshippers and several police officers were injured.

    Mr. Bowers’ defense team had sought to split the sentencing phase of the trial — if there is a sentencing phase — into two distinct segments, which would ultimately make the federal case against Mr. Bowers a three-part trial.

    The trial itself will take place, after which a jury will decide upon Mr. Bowers’ guilt. If he is found guilty, there will be two parts to the sentencing phase. In the first, jurors will consider whether federal prosecutors have proved that Mr. Bowers is eligible for the death penalty, which the government is seeking. In the second, jurors will decide upon a sentence for Mr. Bowers.

    Most notably, the decision by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Colville means that, if there is a sentencing phase, jurors won’t hear victim-impact statements until after they’ve decided if Mr. Bowers is eligible for the death penalty.

    Defense attorneys had sought this split sentencing, noting that otherwise “the jury will hear the highly emotional and prejudicial victim impact evidence in the same proceeding in which they consider whether the elements of a federal capital crime have been proven.”

    In short, defense counsel feared jurors would be unduly swayed to decide Mr. Bowers was eligible for the death penalty if they heard the victim impact statements before making that decision.

    Federal prosecutors, in expressing opposition to splitting the sentencing phase, noted that the law does not require such a distinction. Plus, they noted, separating the sentencing phases “would unduly complicate the penalty phase, introduce significant risk of jury confusion and run counter to the court’s interest in judicial economy.”

    Judge Colville ultimately agreed with the defense, ruling sentencing will be broken into two parts “in an abundance of caution.”

    He noted that while the court is not required to split the sentencing phase, it has the discretion to do so.

    “[While] the court is not unsympathetic to the government’s concerns over unnecessary protraction and complication of the proceedings, hardship to witnesses and delay for victims,” Judge Colville wrote, “the court must also consider and safeguard the fairness of the proceedings in this matter and prevent any potential unfair prejudice to the parties.”

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    Potential jurors in Robert Bowers trial scheduled to make first trip to federal courthouse on Monday

    By WPXI.com News Staff

    PITTSBURGH — The trail for Robert Bowers is about to take a big step forward. Bowers is accused of killing 11 people inside the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill in Oct. 2018.

    Potential jurors will start to arrive at the federal courthouse in Downtown Pittsburgh Monday morning.

    12 jurors and a handful of alternates will be selected to hear the case against Robert Bowers.

    There are going to be two sessions for potential jurors. One will take place at 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. every day. They will also be introduced to the prosecution and defense attorneys.

    They have been summoned to appear, to fill out juror questionnaires to figure out if they can serve on the jury. Questionnaires will be filled out in a secured private room in the courthouse.

    The court will use the juror’s responses to narrow the pool.

    Jury selection is slated to start on April 24.

    If Bowers is convicted he could face the death penalty.

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    Accused Pittsburgh synagogue shooter appears in court

    He was present while potential jurors were instructed on filling out questionnaires that will determine if they can serve on the jury.

    By TOBY TABACHNICK
    The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle

    For the first time in more than four years, the man accused of killing 11 Jews in the Tree of Life building appeared in federal court on Monday, the Tribune-Review reported.

    He was present for the first session of the first phase of jury selection, in which potential jurors are filling out questionnaires that will determine if they can serve on the jury. The procedure will continue for two weeks. Prospective jurors were selected from a 24-county area in western Pennsylvania.

    Jury selection, which begins on April 24 with in-person questioning, is expected to last several weeks.

    In U.S. District Judge Robert J. Colville’s courtroom on Monday, the accused shooter was dressed in a dark sweater and white dress shirt, according to the Tribune-Review. He stood to face the prospective jurors when asked.

    Colville instructed the prospective jurors on the importance of jury selection and described the charges against the defendant. He faces dozens of counts, including the commission of hate crimes resulting in death and the obstruction of religion. Colville further explained that the government is seeking the death penalty if the defendant is convicted, according to the Tribune-Review, and that another potential sentence was life in prison.

    “Each juror must ultimately make an individual judgment,” Colville said, the Tribune-Review reported.
    The prospective jurors then moved to another room to complete the questionnaire. Colville instructed the prospective jurors “to not read or watch any news coverage of the case or do any independent research. They may not discuss the case with their family or friends,” according to the Tribune-Review.

    In other pre-trial news, on Feb. 23, defense attorneys filed a notice of their intention to “introduce expert evidence relating to a mental disease or defect or any other mental condition of the defendant bearing on the issue of punishment.” The notice did not indicate what mental health conditions the defense will seek to prove during the penalty phase if the defendant is convicted.

    In a motion filed last week, the prosecution asked that its experts be allowed to rebut or confirm the defense’s mental health claims. Specifically, it asked that a psychiatrist conduct interviews of the defendant to complete a forensic psychiatric evaluation; a neuropsychologist observe the psychiatric interviews, conduct additional interviewing and administer psychological and neuropsychological tests; and a neurologist interview and conduct a neurological examination of the defendant. The prosecution further requested that its experts “may question the defendant about the charged crimes and his conduct before and after committing the crimes, and any other matter as is necessary and probative to rebut or confirm the anticipated defense expert mental health testimony.”

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    Mental health issue arises as synagogue massacre trial nears

    By Mark Scolforo
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    A former truck driver about to face trial for a shooting massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue more than four years ago has schizophrenia and structural and functional brain impairments, his lawyers argued in a public court filing this week.

    Lawyers for Robert Bowers told a federal judge they were concerned a prosecution proposal to have their own psychiatric experts examine or evaluate him would be a “broad-ranging, invasive, and constitutionally problematic investigation” into his “life, mind, and body.”

    The defense said prosecutors should be limited to looking for evidence that would dispute defense assertions and argued they should not be allowed to investigate every possible aspect of his mental health. A message seeking further comment was left with defense attorneys, and the U.S. attorney’s office in Pittsburgh declined to comment.

    Jury selection is scheduled to begin next month in Bowers’ trial for shooting to death 11 people and wounding seven others at the Tree of Life synagogue in the nation’s most deadly attack on Jewish people. Bowers has offered to plead guilty in return for a life sentence, but prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.

    On Monday, they told the U.S. District Judge Robert Colville in a footnote that federal prosecutors had told them a request to withdraw the death penalty had been denied. “It is unclear whether this decision was made by members of the Department of Justice’s Capital Review Committee or the Attorney General,” Bowers’ lawyers wrote.

    They said the judge should narrow the scope of any prosecution testing, arguing Bowers’ own lawyers subjected him to “numerous objective test measures,” and there’s no medical or legal justification to repeat them. They also want any prosecution testing to be delayed “unless and until” Bowers is convicted of a crime that could carry the death penalty.

    The defense wrote prosecutors in February to say they plan to introduce evidence that Bowers has schizophrenia, epilepsy and brain impairments, findings they say are supported by neuropsychological testing and brain imaging. In the new filing, his lawyers told Colville that prosecutors want to have him examined over several days by a psychiatrist, a neuropsychiatrist and a neurologist.

    Bowers, a Baldwin resident, has pleaded not guilty. After the attack, he traded gunfire with officers and was shot three times before being taken into police custody.

    Investigators say he posted on social media about a false conspiracy theory that the Holocaust was a hoax and expressed contempt for a nonprofit Jewish group that aids refugees.

    https://apnews.com/article/pittsburg...7fa079c59832f4
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    Sisters of 2 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting victims say most of the bereaved favor a death sentence

    By An-Lee Herring
    90.5 WESA News

    With the capital trial in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting case soon approaching, some surviving family members of those who died reiterated their support for prosecution efforts to obtain a death sentence. Diane and Michele Rosenthal lost their brothers, Cecil and David Rosenthal, in the 2018 attack.

    In an online briefing with reporters Friday, the sisters sought to correct news reports that, the sisters said, indicate that most surviving family members would prefer that the man charged in the shooting receive a life sentence in exchange for a guilty plea.

    “To set the record straight, back in July of 2021, seven of the nine families who lost loved ones wrote a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, reflecting our support in seeking the death penalty in this particular tragedy,” Diane Rosenthal said.

    She said her family and six others still hold the same position. They had expressed as much in a letter-to-editor to the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle last fall. On Friday, they shared their letter to Garland with reporters.

    During Friday’s call, Michele Rosenthal said, “the suggestions published or reported that family members be relieved of the stress of a trial, or that a cost-benefit analysis dictates a plea, are offensive to our family.”

    The Rosenthals' remarks lasted for barely five minutes Friday. It marked a rare instance in which bereaved family members chose to speak publicly about the shooting.

    Some congregants who once worshiped at the still-shuttered Tree of Life synagogue in Squirrel Hill, by contrast, have at times spoken with media outlets about their opposition to a capital trial for the charged gunman, Robert Bowers. In 2019 and 2021, they wrote letters to the U.S. Attorney General’s Office, urging prosecutors to drop their capital case against the defendant.

    Before the shooting, three congregations — Dor Hadash, New Light, and Tree of Life / Or L'Simcha — gathered at Tree of Life.

    Members who oppose a capital prosecution for the defendant said the death penalty violates their religious beliefs. They also fear that the trial will force them to endure months of retraumatization. The proceeding, which is scheduled to begin on April 24, is expected to last for three months.

    On Friday, the Rosenthal sisters noted that congregants who favor a life sentence in lieu of a trial did not all lose immediate family members in the shooting.

    They said they believe the death penalty represents just punishment and would serve as a deterrent to other would-be hate-fueled attacks.

    Bowers has been charged on more than 60 federal counts, including hate crimes, obstructing the free exercise of religion resulting in death, and firearms-related offenses. Twenty-two of those counts are eligible for a maximum punishment of death.

    https://www.wesa.fm/courts-justice/2...sburgh-sisters
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    Jury selection begins over 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue attack

    By Peter Smith and Mark Scolforo
    The Associated Press

    PITTSBURGH — Jury selection began Monday in the federal death penalty trial of a truck driver accused of shooting to death 11 Jewish worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.

    Robert G. Bowers, who is from the Pittsburgh suburb of Baldwin, faces 63 counts in the Oct. 27, 2018, attack at the Tree of Life synagogue, where members of three Jewish congregations were holding Sabbath activities. The charges include 11 counts of obstruction of free exercise of religion resulting in death and 11 counts of hate crimes resulting in death.

    Bowers, 50, could get the death sentence if convicted. He offered to plead guilty in return for a life sentence, but federal prosecutors turned him down even though Joe Biden pledged while campaigning for president three years ago that, if elected, he would work to end the federal death penalty. Bowers’ lawyers also recently said he has schizophrenia and structural and functional brain impairments.

    It was quiet outside the courthouse in downtown Pittsburgh for the start of the trial. U.S. District Judge Robert Colville began proceedings by thanking prospective jurors for their service, summarizing the case and describing the trial’s phases. Bowers sat with his attorneys and looked at documents as the judge spoke.

    The courtroom gallery was largely empty, though a small group of relatives of those who were killed and at least one survivor of the attack were present.

    Prosecutors, defense attorneys and the judge spent about 30 minutes questioning each of the first four prospective jurors to be called. Most questions revolved around whether the candidates would be willing to impose the death sentence and, if so, whether they would be open to considering mitigating evidence, including about the defendant’s mental state or childhood.

    All four said they would be able to consider a sentence of death or life in prison.

    One of them came out firmly in support of capital punishment, saying “there needs to be repercussions.” Another said a house of worship “should have been a safe place” and that she couldn’t imagine a worse crime. But she also said that after sitting behind Bowers during a previous hearing, she realized ”he’s a person, not a monster.”

    The court plans to select 12 jurors and six alternates.

    Once a jury is seated, prosecutors are expected to tell jurors about incriminatory statements Bowers allegedly made to investigators, an online trail of antisemitic statements that they say shows the attack was motivated by religious hatred, and the guns recovered from him at the crime scene where police shot Bowers three times before he surrendered.

    The families of those killed were divided over whether the government should pursue the death penalty, but most were in favor.

    Prosecutors indicated in court filings that they might introduce autopsy records and 911 recordings during the trial, including recordings of two calls from victims who were subsequently shot to death. They have said their evidence includes a Colt AR-15 rifle, three Glock .357 handguns and hundreds of cartridge cases, bullets and bullet fragments.

    Bowers also injured seven people, including five police officers who responded to the scene, investigators said.

    In an filing earlier this month, prosecutors said Bowers “harbored deep, murderous animosity towards all Jewish people.” They said he also expressed hatred for HIAS, founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, a nonprofit humanitarian group that helps refugees and asylum seekers.

    During a 2021 pretrial hearing, Officer Clint Thimons testified Bowers was “very calm and he said he’s had enough and that Jews are killing our children and the Jews had to die.” Another officer, David Blahut, said Bowers told him “these people are committing genocide on my people and I want to kill Jews.”

    Prosecutors wrote in a court filing that Bowers had nearly 400 followers on his Gab social media account “to whom he promoted his antisemitic views and calls to violence against Jews.”

    Colville, who was nominated to the court by President Donald Trump more than three years ago, previously spent nearly two decades as a county judge in Pittsburgh.

    The three congregations — Tree of Life, Dor Hadash and New Light — have spoken out against antisemitism and other forms of bigotry since the shootings. The Tree of Life Congregation also is working with partners on plans to renovate and rebuild on its synagogue, which still stands, by creating a complex to house a sanctuary, museum, memorial and center for fighting antisemitism.

    The death penalty trial is proceeding three years after Biden said during his 2020 campaign that he would work to end capital punishment at the federal level and in states that still use it. His attorney general, Merrick Garland, has temporarily paused executions to review policies and procedures, but federal prosecutors continue to vigorously work to uphold death sentences that have been issued and, in some cases, to pursue new death sentences at trial.

    https://apnews.com/article/pittsburg...8b6420d72ddb35

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