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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A federal judge given authority by an appeals court to order the release of investigative files in the Trolley Square shooting rampage has refused to do so.
U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball said he was unwilling to set a precedent to satisfy parents seeking more information about the shopping mall shootings that left their daughter dead.
It was another setback for Ken and Sue Antrobus of Cincinnati, parents of Vanessa Quinn.
The parents wanted to make a case for a stiffer sentence for the man convicted of selling a .38-caliber Smith & Wesson handgun to a minor, the mall shooter, Sulejman Talovic.
To make their case, the parents sought investigative files from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to see the evidence for themselves.
But Kimball refused in a decision released this week.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
