2 - Friday, January 29, 2010 MONDAY: In Other Ivory Towers TUESDAY: Professor Profiles The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327 www.michigandaily.com JACOB SMILOVITZ DAN NEWMAN Editor in Chief Business Manager 734-647-3336 734-764-0558 smilovitz@michigandaily.com tmdbusiness@gmaif.com CONTACT INFORMATION Newsroom Officehours:sun.-Thurs.11a.m. -2a.m. 734-763-2459 News Tips news@michigandaily.com Corrections corrections@michigandaily.com Letters tothe Editor tothedaily@michigandaily.com Photography Department photo@michigandaily.com Arts Section artspage@michigandaily.com Editorial Page opinion@michigandaily.com Sports Section Display Sales Classified Sales sports@michigandaily.com display@mzichiganidaily.com classified@michigandaily.com NEED MORE PHOTOS? See so many more photos of the week on our website, michigandailycom. LEFT Cadence Dance Company performs at the Mendelson Theatre on Saturday. 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Drunk on 'U' bus cited for an MIP WHEN: Yesterday around 1 a.m. WHERE: Aboard a University bus WHAT: An t8-year-old male student was intoxicated on the bus and taken to the emergen- cy room by an ambulance, Uni- versity police reported. He was cited for an MIP. from purse WHEN: Wednesday around 4:30 p.m. WHERE: University Hospital WHAT: $50 was stolen from an unattended purse at an unknown date or time, Univer- sity police reported. Van hits flashing sign crosswalk signal WHEN: Wednesday around 1:30 p.m. WHERE: University Hospital WHAT: A van struck a flash- ing road crosswalk signal, University police reported. The Ann Arbor Police Depart- ment was notified to make the repairs, estimated to be about $1,000. 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Get more online at michigandaily.com/blogs/the wire No manslaughter defense in abortion doctor's murder 0 After hearing from defendant, Judge said premeditation was obvious WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The judge in the trial of a man accused of murdering an abortion doctor dealt the defense a major setback Thursday, ruling that the jury can- not consider a lesser charge of man- slaughter. The ruling came hours after Scott Roeder took the stand in his own defense and admitted killing Dr. George Tiller, saying he acted to save the lives of unborn children. Roeder's attorneys had hoped to win a lesser conviction of voluntary manslaughter, which requires them to show their client had an unrea- sonable but honest belief that dead- ly force was justified. The charge carries a considerably lighter sen- tence than murder. Roeder testified that he consid- ered elaborate schemes to stop the doctor, including chopping off his hands, crashing a car into him or sneaking into his home to kill him. But in the end, Roeder told jurors, the easiest way was to walk into Tiller's church, put aguntothe man's forehead and pull the trigger. . Testifying as the lone defense witness, Roeder calmly explained what he admitted publicly months ago - that he killed Tiller to save unborn children. "Those children were in imme- diate danger if someone did not stop George Tiller," Roeder said as the jury watched attentively but without a hint of surprise. "They were going to continue to die," he said. "The babies were going to continue to die." Roeder has pleaded not guilty to murder in the attack at the Wichita church where Tiller was an usher. Witnesses have described how Roeder walked into the building's foyer on May 31 shortly after the service started, approached Tiller and fired asingle shot before fleeing. After Roeder's testimony, Dis- trict Judge Warren Wilbert ruled that the jury would not be permit- ted to consider the manslaughter charge because abortion, including late-term abortion, is legal in Kan- sas and because Tiller did not pose an imminent threat. "There is no immediate dan- ger in the back of a church," the judge said. He also ruled out a second-degree murder conviction, which does not involve premedita- tion, because it was clear Roeder planned the killing. "It would be hard for a reason- able fact-finder to find anything other than the defendant formulat- ing his belief and then planning on multiple occasions ... to carry out his intention to (kill) Dr. Tiller." In a November interview with The Associated Press, Roeder pub- licly confessed to shooting Tiller, who was one of the few doctors in the country who performed late- term abortions. Roeder, 51, of Kansas City, Mo., said he considered other ways of killing Tiller, including driving his car into Tiller's or shooting him with a shotgun. But he said he was concerned those approaches could hurt others. "I did what I thought was needed to be done to protect the children," Roeder said. "I shot him." He testified that he wrapped the .22-caliber handgun in a piece of cloth and buried it in a rural area. The weapon has not been recovered. Prosecutors were careful during the first few days of testimony to avoid the subject of abortion and to focus on the specifics of the shoot- ing. The judge said he did not want the trial to become a debate on abortion, but he said he would give Roeder a great deal of "latitude" when discussinghis beliefs because they were integral to his defense. Throughout his questioning, Roeder appeared calm and col- lected, waiting quietly each time prosecutors objected to something he said about medical procedures or late-term abortions, which the judge forbade him from testifying about. When asked, for example, to detail the types of abortion proce- dures he was familiar with, Roeder answered "four or five" and then listed them. In one instance, he described a procedure as the fetus being "torn limb from limb" - a characterization that prompted a quick objection from prosecutor Nola Foulston. During a lengthy cross examina- tion, Foulston tried to keep Roeder's responses to "yes" or "no." At one point, Roeder acknowledged that he had been thinking about killing abortion providers since the 1990s, and had considered using a sword to chop off Tiller's hands or killing him at his home. Roeder testified though that he thought chopping off Tiller's hands was not a good solution because Tiller would still be able to train people. 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