SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A father and son convicted of planting a bomb that killed two Oregon police officers will be back in court on Monday.
Bruce Turnidge and his son Joshua Turnidge face formal sentencing after a jury last month recommended they be executed. Marion County Circuit Court judge Tom Hart must accept the jury’s recommendation.
Prosecutors argued that the men hated authorities, were desperate for money and hatched a plot to rob the West Coast Bank in Woodburn. The men maintained they were innocent, and each blamed the other for the attack. The blast killed state police bomb technician William Hakim and Woodburn Capt. Tom Tennant. The town’s police chief lost his leg in the December 2008 explosion.