Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 8, 1990 TAG: 9003081809
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-5 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: ATLANTA LENGTH: Short
Defendant Emmanuel Hammond, 24, of Marietta bowed his head when the verdict was announced in Fulton County Superior Court, but otherwise showed no emotion.
The prosecution plans to ask for the death penalty.
In addition to felony and malice murder and kidnapping, Hammond was found guilty of armed robbery in the slaying of preschool fitness teacher Julie Love.
A letter from a group claiming responsibility for the mail bomb deaths last December of 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Robert Vance in Mountain Brook, Ala., and Savannah attorney Robert Robinson said the attacks were motivated by outrage over Love's slaying.
The letter, signed by Americans for a Competent Federal Judicial System, threatened more violence if any other white women were attacked by black men in Alabama, Florida or Georgia. Love was white; Hammond is black.
- Associated Press
by CNB