jurisdiction in the case. In the Oklahoma City bombing, for example, the federal prosecution went first. But New York's double jeopardy laws mean that an initial federal case would preclude a state trial, a law enforcement official said. A Canadian arrest warrant was issued for Mr. Kopp last year, charging him with the 1995 sniper shooting of an abortion provider in his home in Ancaster, Ontario, wounding him in the elbow. Mr. Kopp is also a suspect in three similar shootings. Kathleen Mehltretter, the first assistant United States attorney in Buffalo who has been supervising the investigation since the shooting of Dr. Slepian, said that "our investigation is definitely continuing to determine whether or not other people assisted him." On Thursday, F.B.I. agents arrested two other anti-abortion activists, Dennis J. Malvasi and Loretta C. Marra, at what prosecutors called a "safe house" in East New York, Brooklyn, for aiding Mr. Kopp in his flight. Mr. Kopp was seized by French police as he waited in the Dinan post office, officials said, for a money order from the couple to pay for his return to America. Law enforcement officials became interested in Ms. Marra as they checked the records of Mr. Kopp's many arrests in anti-abortion protests and identified those who had been arrested with him. Ms. Marra was jailed with Mr. Kopp after protests against Planned Parenthood in Burlington, Vt., in 1990, and they shackled themselves together during a Long Island protest In 1991. New york timesMarch 28, 2001 Politics Justices Return to Old Case of Condemned Retarded Killer By LINDA GREENHOUSE •Justices to Review Issue of Executing Retarded Killers (Mar 27, 2001) •Court to Review Death Penalty for Mentally Retarded (Mar 26, 2001) •Missouri Set to Execute Retarded Man (Mar 06, 2001) Find more related articles by selecting from the following topics: Children and Youth Suits and Litigation Decisions and Verdicts Cri...
