13-06-2017 12:10 via topix.com

Theodore Decker: In death penalty trial, suspect shows no emotion

So much of Lincoln Rutledge's life in the weeks before his deadly standoff with Columbus police last year was about constant motion, his sudden tumble into irrationality and the choices he made that hastened his fall. Rutledge did little more than blink and stare into space as he sat for hours Monday before the Franklin County Common Pleas jury that will weigh whether he killed SWAT Officer Stephen Smith during a Clintonville barricade in April 2016 and, if he did, whether he should pay for that
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