Federal court jury to resume deliberating in Illinois man’s trial in Utah library blast
By APMonday, October 4, 2010
Utah library explosion jury to resume deliberating
SALT LAKE CITY — A federal jury in Utah is due to resume deliberations in the trial of an Illinois man accused of bombing a downtown Salt Lake City library in 2006.
Jurors were scheduled to return to court Monday after hearing closing arguments Friday in the trial of 57-year-old Thomas Zajac.
Zajac could face decades in prison in the September 2006 blast that damaged a library window and forced 400 people to flee. No one was hurt.
Prosecutor Eric Benson told jurors Zajac that was angry about his son’s 2004 drunken-driving arrest by Salt Lake City police.
Defense lawyer Deirdre Gorman suggests that Zajac’s son, Adam Zajac, had a better motive for the bombing than his father.
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