PETITION
FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS OF PETITIONER-DEFENDANT, |
V. THE "OTHERS UNKNOWN" TO THE GRAND JURY. The theory of the prosecution in this case, not the Grand Jury's theory, is that the two named Defendants constructed a simple device capable of toppling a nine-story building at a public fishing lake and that one of them transported this device over two hundred miles without blowing himself up. That is the heart of the prosecution's case. Any evidence concerning the participation of others, the complexity of the device, or foreign involvement takes away the heart of the government's case and there is therefore an institutional interest on the part of the government in keeping such evidence shielded from the defense and the public. But unfortunately for the government such evidence exists. One of the core allegations in the Indictment is that Timothy McVeigh rented a Ryder truck at Elliott's Body Shop in Junction City, Kansas. The evidence, however,