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DENVER—A lawyer for a man who has twice backed out on proposed plea deals over a threat to a Colorado abortion clinic is asking to withdraw from the case.
Weeks after Kansas abortion doctor George Tiller was slain last year, Donald Hertz of Spokane, Wash., was accused of calling Dr. Warren Hern’s clinic in Boulder, Colo., and threatening to kill members of Hern’s family.
Hertz’s lawyer Dustin Deissner says in documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Denver that Hertz has “cognitive limitations,” and he doesn’t know if Hertz still intends to plead guilty. Deissner says he’s not experienced in criminal trial practice if Hertz goes to trial and that Hertz can’t afford to pay Deissner as the case drags on.
