Magistrate Judge T. Michael Putnam has ruled that evidence seized from the North Carolina trailer and shed of Eric Rudolph can be admitted at his trial for bombing an Alabama abortion clinic in 1998. Rudolph's defense had challenged the validity of the search warrants. Judge Putnam also ruled Rudolph's arrest behind a grocery story in Murphy, NC was legal. The defense challenged the arrest in hopes of blocking false statements Rudolph made to police at the time. The trial is scheduled to begin in May, 2005.