BALTIMORE (AP) - A Baltimore attorney who became a confidant of D.C. sniper John Allen Muhammad is writing a book about him.

J. Wyndal Gordon volunteered as standby counsel during the 2006 trial in Montgomery County in which Muhammad represented himself.

Gordon says they forged a strong bond and he's now working on a book about the case - an idea he says Muhammad suggested.

Muhammad was put to death Tuesday in Virginia for killing Dean Harold Meyers at a gas station during an October 2002 shooting spree that left 10 people dead and terrorized Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C..

Gordon says the book will present Muhammad's story "without the filters and rules of evidence that prevented him from getting things in court."

Attorney Jonathan Sheldon, who most recently represented Muhammad, called the book "inappropriate."

 

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