'Ever kill anyone?' Cleveland Clinic nurse accused of murder-for-hire plot in house dispute
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A Cleveland Clinic nurse faces trial next month on a charge that allegedly emerged from an emergency room question to a patient: "Ever killed anyone?"
Prosecutors say the patient tipped off police that 23-year-old emergency room nurse Andrew Martin was plotting to kill a woman he was in home-ownership dispute with. The woman was not hurt.
Martin has pleaded not guilty and goes on trial next month in federal court in Cleveland.
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Defense attorney Edward LaRue says "there's much more to come." He says an image of a productive young man will emerge at the trial.
A federal affidavit says Martin hatched the plot in frustration that the house owner's surviving sister was fighting an alleged house-theft scam in suburban Lakewood.