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He claimed that his lawyers were withholding information that was important to his defence and told her: "It was never my intention to be represented by an attorney."Lewis said the sniper told her that he was innocent and his arrest "was the result of an elaborate scheme to frame him for the murders".She wrote that Muhammad told her he also believed his accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the killings, had been "fed information by the police and forced to make a false confession".Malvo is scheduled to go on trial in Montgomery county in the autumn for the same six murders.Muhammad has refused to assist his lawyers, saying that he cannot share his "secret defence strategy" with them because "they cannot be trusted".Muhammad was sentenced to death for a sniper shooting in Manassas, Virginia, after a jury found him guilty of murder, terrorism, conspiracy and illegal use of a weapon.Malvo was convicted of murder of at least two people, murder as an act of terrorism, and the use of a firearm in committing a crime.

He was sentenced to life in prison.Muhammad and Malvo were caught asleep in their modified car at a roadside rest stop.

A circular hole had been cut in the boot, through which they had been able to take aim at their targets.

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"Some Other, Better Otto" explores the nature of family ties.

Otto has spent most of his adulthood fleeing those ties, but as Thanksgiving approaches, he begins to think about the genetic and environmental links he has to his siblings: "Perhaps the life of the last dinosaurs, as they ranged, puzzled and sorrowful, across the comet-singed planet, was similar to childhood.

It hadn't been a pleasant time, surely, and yet one did have an impulse to acknowledge one's antecedents, now and again.

Hello, that was us, it still is, good-bye." Meanwhile, Otto's younger sister, Sharon, seems to be marooned on her own planet.

At a tender age, Sharon's brilliance set her apart from her siblings.

Soon, it set her apart from everyone.

"Strange, you really couldn't tell, half the time, whether someone was knowledgeable or insane.

At school Sharon had shown an astounding talent for the sciences _ for everything.

For mathematics, especially.

Her mind was so rarefied, so crystalline, so adventurous, that none of the rest of them could begin to follow." That blessing soon became its own curse: " ...

At a certain point as she wandered among the galaxies, among the whirling particles and ineffable numbers, something leaked in her mind, smudging the text of the cosmos, and she was lost." Otto cannot fathom why Sharon's fate is madness and ...