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Awaiting execution, Marvin Gabrion says he deserved mistrial for punching attorney
May 29, 2015 at 7:10 PM
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May 29, 2015 at 7:10 PM
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Marvin Gabrion has asked a federal judge to vacate his death sentence in the 1997 killing of Rachel Timmerman.
Among the reasons: the trial judge failed to declare a mistrial when Gabrion punched one of his attorneys.
The government showed that Gabrion kidnapped and killed Timmerman, 19, two days before he was to stand trial in Newaygo County Circuit Court for raping her. Her body was found in a remote lake. She was bound, gagged and weighed down by a concrete block.
The body of her 11-month-old daughter, Shannon Verhage, has never been found. The government believes he killed her as well as three others. The federal government, which allows use of the death penalty, prosecuted Gabrion because the killing occurred on federal land.