Lawyers Want Loughner Writing Samples
Arizona Republic reports:
Prosecutors have asked a U.S. District Court judge to make Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner turn over handwriting samples to compare with notes found scrawled in his home.
Loughner has been charged in federal court with wounding three people, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, during a Tucson shooting spree on Jan. 8.
Six died and 13 were wounded.
More charges, including murder, are expected against Loughner both in federal court and in Pima County Superior Court.
In a motion filed Thursday, Assistant U.S. Attorney for Arizona Mary Sue Feldmeier asked Judge Larry A. Burns to compel Loughner to provide the samples, which a handwriting expert could then evaluate to see whether they match writings from Loughner's home.
Investigators have described finding "two significant papers that had some hand-scrawled comments."
Among the words and phrases written on those papers were "die, bitch," "die cops," "I planned ahead," "My assassination," and "Giffords."
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