By Alabama Public Radio
Huntsville, AL – Defense attorneys for Eric Robert Rudolph tried to discredit the government's evidence in a pretrial hearing Wednesday in Huntsville. Rudolph is charged with the 1998 abortion clinic bombing in Birmingham that killed a police officer and injured a nurse. His defense team says federal agents could have contaminated Rudolph's trailer in North Carolina with traces of explosives picked up at the scene of the blast. But a federal explosives expert said officers were careful to avoid contaminating the evidence. Authorities say they found traces of explosives in Rudolph's trailer, and prosecutors want to use that as evidence against him.