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Trial For Abortion Doctor Set For June In Md.

ELKTON, Md. (AP) -- A trial date has been scheduled for a New Jersey doctor charged with murder for providing late-term abortions in Maryland.

The Cecil Whig reports Dr. Steven Chase Brigham's case will be heard from June 6-15 in Cecil County Circuit Court in Elkton.

Brigham, 55, of Voorhees, N.J., and Dr. Nicola Riley of Salt Lake City, Utah, were indicted under a Maryland law that allows murder charges to be brought in the death of a viable fetus.

(Copyright 2012 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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