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
John Tiller groups such as Tiller's were done by: The Cotton Club Boys and Girls also were known to use some of these methods in their dancing, as well as a dance called the Can-Can used Tillers ideas. The Ziegfeld Follies of 1922 featured the Tiller Girls in one of the acts and was Choreographed by Ned Wayburn. Tiller died in New York in 1925. His body was brought back to London and travelled to Brookwood Cemetery on the special funeral train. John Tiller John Thomas Ibbotson Tiller (13 June 1854 in Blackburn, Lancashire – 22 October 1925 in New York) was