https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_David_Gunn
During his trial,Griffin's lead defense attorney,Robert Kerrigan,argued that John Burt "brainwashed" Griffin and drove him to commit murder. [6] At the time,Burt was the Northwest Florida regional director of the national pro-life group Rescue America. [6]
Burt was a retired U.S. Marine and former member of the Ku KluxKlan (though he claims to have "abandoned the group's racist doctrine when he became a born-again Christian [6] ") and a self-professed "spiritual adviser" to a group of activists who bombed three abortion clinics in 1984. [6] He ran a "safe-house" for pregnant teenagers who had decided to take their pregnancies to term,called "Our Father's House".
In 2005,Burt was convicted of five counts of lewd or lascivious conduct for improperly touching and propositioning a 15-year-old girl at the house,and sentenced to 18 years in state prison. [7]