Accused Columbus Shooter To Plead Guilty

A man accused of killing three people in a shooting rampage at a Columbus hospital in March 2008 is expected to plead guilty. Charles Johnston is on today’s guilty plea docket in Superior Court.

The 64-year-old Johnston was accused of entering the hospital on March 27, 2008 and killing three people, including an administrative assistant, nurse Pete Wright, and a 76-year-old patient.

Police say Johnston had a grudge against a nurse he believed was responsible for the 2004 death of his mother and mistakenly thought Wright was that nurse.

Brian Nichols lawyers want new judge

Lawyers for a man charged with killing four people in 2005 shooting spree that began inside a downtown Atlanta courthouse want the judge presiding over the case removed.

Brian Nichols' lawyers say in court papers Monday that Superior Court Judge James Bodiford was quoted in a newspaper article four days after the shootings saying that he was friends with the judge killed in the rampage.

It’s not the first time a judge has been removed from the trial.

Earlier this year, the first judge presiding over the Nichols case stepped down after he was quoted in a magazine article saying of Nichols that "everyone in the world knows he did it."

Nichols' murder trial resumes July 10.