An unlikely bond: one a lawyer, the other a killer

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Minutes before convicted Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad was executed Tuesday night in Virginia, he said goodbye to a Baltimore lawyer who had become a trusted confidant.

"I love you, brother," Muhammad said, according to the attorney, J. Wyndal Gordon, and Gordon told the condemned man he loved him back.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bal-md.gordon15nov15,0,2036386.story
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  • added November 16, 2009

19 comments // An unlikely bond: one a lawyer, the other a killer

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    you ever been talkin to a dead man walkin? compassion for a human life can be a great thing no matter who it is.

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    idealist
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    Where was that compassion as he allowed death to come to many families own "brothers'?

    J_Jammer
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    Good story.

    treewolf39
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    I fail to see what is so unlikely about this bond. The lawyer defending him wasn't even remotely concerned with right vs wrong, but simply in doing anything and everything he could to get his client off completely or reducing his punishment. I would expect an individual with personal values that skewed to feel a genuine kinship toward a cancer of society.

    dlester
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    Awww, poor lawyer. His friend was exeuted. Granted his friend was a murdering psycopath, but still. Awww

    jac1992
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    Somebody please don't say made for TV movie or Book Deal ok ?????

    Maeveeo
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    "I love you, brother," ........... he said.

    I'm glad he had someone he felt love for. I'm also glad he's gone for good.

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    It would have been even tougher to defend him had the attorney believed he should have been executed. Plus he had an accomplice which makes him even worse in the # of people he dispatched with swiftly. Innocent ones at that I might ad.

    ankab
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    Who cares? Glad the assassin is gone.

    samthesixth
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    I read today that the lawyer is going to write a book telling the killer's story. How can he justify the killing of innocent people? The ahole lawyer just wants to profit. I hope he donates the proceeds to the surviving family members of the victims.

    samthesixth
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    you cant help where you were born or how you were raised(look at the pope) some people are just raised to be extremnist. but i dont feel sorry for him.

    idealist
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    I don't see anything exeptional here in any way, shape or form. The judicial system dictates that the accused MUST be defended, so the lawyer can not be slighted for doing that, unless you're a moron. If in doing so the man learns things and communicates with him on a more intimate level, that's only to be expected given the seriousness of the situation and its intensity.

    ozoneocean
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    The lawyer didn't defend him. The assassin defended himself.

    samthesixth

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