Trial Near End in Las Vegas Strip Bombing Case

Trial Near End in Las Vegas Strip Bombing Case

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Testimony has ended in the trial of two men facing the death penalty in a fatal parking lot bombing outside a Las Vegas Strip hotel in 2007.

Closing arguments are due Thursday before jurors begin deliberating the fate of accused bombmaker Porfirio Duarte-Herrera and a friend identified as Omar Rueda-Denvers.

Both men have pleaded not guilty to charges including murder in the bombing that killed 24-year-old Willebaldo Dorantes Antonio in the parking lot of the Luxor hotel-casino.

Prosecutors allege the 29-year-old Duarte-Herrera built a pipe bomb that killed Dorantes Antonio because the man was dating the 33-year-old Rueda-Denvers's ex-girlfriend.

The jury heard from 13 prosecution witnesses and two defense witnesses, but neither Duarte-Herrera nor Rueda-Denvers testified.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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