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Article: Salvi state of mind is the key Trial to begin today in slayings at Brookline women's clinics
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 5, 1996
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A madman inflamed by delusions, or a calculating killer bent on
making a political statement?
Stripped to its barest essentials, that is the issue a jury of
Norfolk County residents must resolve in the double-murder trial of
John C. Salvi 3d, set to get under way in Dedham today.
Faced with powerful evidence of Salvi's guilt and his sometimes
bizarre behavior, attorneys for the 23-year-old part-time hairdresser
say Salvi was insane on Dec. 30, 1994, when he allegedly killed two
women and wounded five other people during attacks on two Brookline
women's health clinics.
But Norfolk County prosecutors, pointing to a history of activism
in the antiabortion movement predating the killings, and ...