Terrorism & Extremism

Document: Robert Bowers Indictment

Matthew Kahn
Thursday, November 1, 2018, 10:37 AM

On Oct. 31, a grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania returned a 44-count indictment, including hate crimes, against Robert Bowers for the murder of 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27. On Nov. 1, the Wall Street Journal reported that Bowers entered a plea of not guilty. The full document is below.

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On Oct. 31, a grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania returned a 44-count indictment, including hate crimes, against Robert Bowers for the murder of 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct. 27. On Nov. 1, the Wall Street Journal reported that Bowers entered a plea of not guilty. The full document is below.


Matthew Kahn is a third-year law student at Harvard Law School and a contributor at Lawfare. Prior to law school, he worked for two years as an associate editor of Lawfare and as a junior researcher at the Brookings Institution. He graduated from Georgetown University in 2017.

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