If this info is correct this does stink to high Heaven!
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23472
Abortionist-killer
suspect framed?
Group suggests FBI committed 'criminal acts' in Kopp case
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By Julie Foster
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
An anti-abortion group that disapproves of killing abortionists has written a report detailing its theory that accused abortionist-killer James Kopp is being framed by the FBI.
Denton, Texas-based Life Dynamics developed the report using affidavits and interviews from witnesses, including Kopp, and extradition documents from both the FBI and the Amherst (New York) Police Department.
Life Dynamics is a unique abortion-issue activist group in that its primary mission is to provide litigation support services for attorneys representing women who have been killed, injured or sexually assaulted while having abortions. Since its founding in 1992, the group has assisted in more than 200 cases. Though it provides no formal legal representation, Life Dynamics also conducts direct-mail campaigns "to educate members of the medical community about the realities of becoming involved in abortion."
Ed Zielinski, an attorney with Life Dynamics, went to France to interview Kopp personally and also conducted other interviews and research that comprise the basis of the report. Zielinski is a former criminal defense attorney who was an assistant district attorney in Cook County, Texas, when he was hired by the group.
"Our report does not seek to prove whether Jim Kopp committed this crime or not – that was not our purpose," said Life Dynamics President Mark Crutcher, author of the report who noted he had never heard of Kopp before the murder. Rather, the group focused on "investigating the investigator," he said.
James Kopp, a 46-year-old with a master's degree in biology, is accused of shooting 52-year-old Dr. Barnet Slepian on Oct. 23, 1998, while the doctor was talking with his wife and sons in his Amherst home near Buffalo, N.Y. The bullet struck Slepian through the chest, making him the third U.S. gynecologist to be murdered in 5 years. He was the only doctor still performing abortions in a city of 300,000 people, and his clinic had regularly been the focus of anti-abortion protests.
Upon hearing he was suspected of the crime, Kopp fled to France, where he was apprehended on March 27. Held in custody in Rennes, French authorities resisted signing an extradition agreement because Kopp and his attorney said he could face the death penalty in the United States – an illegal punishment in France, where the death penalty is considered immoral.
A week before the first hearing on June 7, the U.S. embassy in France sent the French government a diplomatic note promising Kopp would not face the death penalty. Following protests from Kopp's French defense lawyer that the note was not a sufficient guarantee, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft confirmed that he had, with regret, agreed to rule out the death penalty in the case. Accordingly, France agreed Thursday to extradite Kopp.