Sirhan's original defenders had decided at the outset that Sirhan was the lone shooter.

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Because Sirhan's initial lawyers presented a diminished capacity case in 1969, they never pursued available defenses.

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Evidentiary conflicts, and issues such as a possible second gun, simply were not addressed at Sirhan's 1969 trial.

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Sirhan Sirhan's current legal team is doing something his original lawyers never did.

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Defense attorney William Pepper calls Rhodes-Hughes' recollections "significant verification" of new assassination evidence that the Sirhan legal team is currently presenting.

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Most of the original prosecution's evidence was stipulated by the original defense team, which agreed that Sirhan had killed the presidential candidate.

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Another unit of the prison houses such notorious inmates as mass killer Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted assassin of Sen.

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They are asserting that Sirhan did not shoot Kennedy.

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Despite the fact her FBI interview summary indicates Nina Rhodes-Hughes was inside the kitchen pantry during the assassination, she was never called to testify at Sirhan's 1969 trial or at any subsequent inquiry over the years.

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