Assassination of George Tiller questioned in public. The Kansas State Supreme Court overturned his order, although parts of the questions to individual jurors remained private. The court heard opening statements on January 22, 2010. The defense had asked the court to hear the testimony of the former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline and Barry Disney, a current member of that office. Both had previously tried to convict Tiller of providing illegal late-term abortions. The judge, upon previewing the testimony of Kline, disallowed his testimony pointing out such abortions are legal in Kansas and citing the possibility of prejudicing the jury. Scott Roeder took the
Assassination of George Tiller nor local police arrested him in the days leading up to the murder despite reports and evidence offered to both that he vandalized a women's clinic the week before and the day before. In a telephone call from prison, Roeder confessed to the press that he had shot and killed Tiller, and declared that he felt no remorse. In the six months before Roeder's arrest, he said, he had worked for an airport shuttle service, a party-rental shop, a convenience store and a property management enterprise. After his arrest, Roeder's ex-wife, Lindsey Roeder, claimed that Roeder had been suffering from