Bomb Suspect Faces Two Trials

A judge turned down the Unabomber suspect’s request to be tried in California for the mail bomb death of an advertising executive in New Jersey.

Theodore J. Kaczynski wanted the New Jersey case transferred to California where he faces trial next year in two other bombing deaths. But U.S. District Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise said there was no compelling reason to move the trial since the executive was killed in New Jersey.

Federal prosecutors opposed the transfer, which Kaczynski’s lawyers sought as a first step to consolidate the two cases in one trial. Kaczynski pleaded innocent to the New Jersey charges Tuesday through a live video hookup from Sacramento.