During his first court appearance today, the Wisconsin man accused of trying to burn down a Planned Parenthood clinic told a U.S. judge he planned to plead guilty and tried to fire his court-appointed lawyer, the Green Bay Press-Gazette reports.
Francis Grady, 50, of Grand Chute, is accused of smashing a window at the clinic in Grand Chute on Sunday night and igniting a small gasoline fire that was discovered and extinguished by firefighters. A security camera recorded a white van and a man who appeared to be Grady, the criminal complaint states.
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Our Gannett colleagues in Green Bay say that when Grady was asked why he had planted a bomb, he replied, "There was no bomb, it was gasoline," and said he did it because "they're killing babies there."
He is charged with arson of a building used in interstate commerce and intentionally damaging a property used to provide reproductive health services.
U.S. Magistrate Judge James Sickel ignored Grady's statement that he planned to plead guilty and scheduled an April 19 preliminary hearing. Grady interrupted the judge, asking, "Do you even care at all about the 1,000 babies that died screaming?"
If convicted, Grady could be sent to federal prison for 21 years.
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