The prosecution rests. The defense begins its case by raising doubts in the jury regarding whether or not Timothy McVeigh and Robert Kling, whose name was on the Ryder truck rental receipt, are the same person. After only three and a half days of testimony, the defense rests. The jury finds Timothy McVeigh guilty on 11 counts, including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, use of a weapon of mass destruction, destruction by explosive, and eight counts of first-degree murder. Timothy McVeigh is sentenced to die.
Final jury is selected.
Prosecutors introduce their case and explain that they will present evidence that Terry Nichols conspired with Timothy McVeigh to build the bomb that destroyed the Murrah building. The defense says its evidence will prove a reasonable doubt. The first witnesses in the prosecution's case against Nichols include a security guard from the Regency Towers apartments who saw a videotape of a truck that may have been Nichols' parked outside the Regency Towers on Easter Sunday 1995, just three days before the bombing and a Regency Towers resident who saw a Ryder truck outside the building just minutes before the explosion. The defense attacks the FBI's handling of evidence from the bombing, claiming that important evidence could have been contaminated. Fortier, who pleaded guilty to lesser charges in exchange for his testimony against McVeigh and Nichols, testifies that he didn't know Nichols as well as he knew McVeigh, but that McVeigh told him Nichols was involved.