JUDGES MAY AVOID BOMB CASE; RECUSALS POSSIBLE SINCE COURTHOUSE WAS PLOT TARGET.Byline: Jesse Hiestand Daily News Staff Writer Because they were the targets of an alleged bomb plot, Ventura County judges may have to disqualify To deprive of eligibility or render unfit; to disable or incapacitate. To be disqualified is to be stripped of legal capacity. A wife would be disqualified as a juror in her husband's trial for murder due to the nature of their relationship. themselves from hearing cases involving the suspect, one of the judges said Wednesday. Judge Vincent J. O'Neill postponed for a week a bail hearing for Frank Boyd Cockrell Jr., who is suspected of soliciting an undercover agent to blow up the Ventura County Courthouse The Ventura County Courthouse, located in Ventura, California, was designed in 1910 by one of the early pioneers of architecture in Southern California: Albert C. Martin, Sr. in order to avert his Nov. 3 trial on securities fraud charges. The delay will allow O'Neill to consider whether he should lift a no-bail hold on Cockrell and allow him to be released on $100,000 bond. ``The Ventura Superior Court has now taken under consideration whether the law requires us to step out of this case because we work in the building that was allegedly involved in the discussions between Mr. Cockrell and the undercover agent,'' O'Neill said. Cockrell, 49, was arrested Sept. 24 by authorities who said the Sherman Oaks business consultant planned to fund the bombing by kidnapping kidnapping, in law, the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to cause him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political or other purposes. , robbing and murdering a Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. businessman and his wife. The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office filed an eight-count complaint Tuesday against Cockrell, charging him with soliciting the murders of and attempting to murder Ventura County District Attorney Michael D. Bradbury, members of the District Attorney's Office, and Raul and Marilyn Feinstein. Charges relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc the alleged bomb plot are expected to be filed this month in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, said officials with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Defense attorney Edward Whipple refused to comment. The ATF's Van Nuys office coordinated the investigation that led to Cockrell's arrest on a warrant issued in Ventura County. That warrant, revoking the defendant's $100,000 bail in the pending fraud case, was issued after ATF ATF Molecular virology Activating transcription factor A cellular protein that stimulates transcription of adenovirus E4 transcription unit, which acts early in infection at any of several 'enhancer' binding sites agent Charles Pratt
Charles Pratt (October 2 1830 – May 4 1891) was a United States capitalist, businessman and philanthropist. Pratt was a pioneer of the U.S. testified that he was working undercover as an anti-government militia leader when Cockrell asked him to plan and carry out the bombing and robbery, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. court documents. Pratt said he was given $2,000 as a down payment to blow up the courthouse and local freeways, tying up police and fire crews so a truck bomb or firebomb could destroy the courthouse, Pratt said. Although Cockrell will be prosecuted in Los Angeles County on federal charges, he is first required to appear in Ventura Superior Court for a hearing formally revoking his bail. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Frank Cockrell, suspected of plotting to blow up the Ventura County Courthouse, appears at a hearing Wednesday. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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