Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.is facing a possible death sentence if convicted of capital murder in the 2014 shootings at two sites in Overland Park, Kansas. Then Miller asked him, “Are you a homosexual?”
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In court on Thursday, Cross said he went to the emergency room three weeks before the shootings and thought he was going to die from emphysema before he got a chance to kill “Jews” because of so many white people dying.
A few minutes later, he allegedly killed Terri LaManno, 53, outside the nearby Village Shalom care center.
Prosecutors believe that the admitted perpetrator, who took the lives of three innocent by-standards at Jewish Community Centers, is attempting to sabotage the proceedings.
[Miller was reportedly a longtime Ku Klux Klan leader]. When the prosecution objected, Miller had no further questions.
With no formal legal training and his stand-by attorneys ordered to not get involved in the trial unless requested by the judge, Miller has voiced a number of freaky objections and has frequently been told his comments toward witnesses were out of order.
The judge said he’s pushing the trial back to Friday so Cross can prepare his evidence summary and also because the witness Cross planned to call wasn’t available on Thursday.
Rather than challenge the veracity of the recordings or their admissibility as evidence, Miller apologized about the profanity, saying he hadn’t expected “women and children” to hear it, and then proceeded to reiterate numerous comments from the conversations in which he stated he’d wished the victims had been Jews.
Miller asked Judge Thomas Kelly Ryan to postpone the defense part of the case until Monday because he’s not prepared.
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Reese is a freelance writer.
