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DENVER (AP) -- A Denver-based federal court will hear the appeal of a Utah man sentenced to die for shooting and killing an attorney in a Salt Lake City courthouse.
A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court Appeals is scheduled to hear the appeal of Ronnie Lee Gardner on Monday.
The 48-year-old Gardner was convicted of shooting and killing attorney Mike Burdell in 1985 when Gardner was in court facing charges stemming from another fatal shooting.
Authorities say his girlfriend had smuggled a loaded gun into the courthouse, and he opened fire with it in failed escape attempt. Gardner and a bailiff were wounded in the melee.
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