Anyone looking out their window on July 5, 2003, in Anoka County Minnesota may have been convinced they were watching a re-enactment of a Grade B movie where the protagonist blows away his car with a shotgun. Damian Petersen, 34 plead guilty that August. The July afternoon had seen him but 11 bullets into the […]
READ MOREDoctor’s diagnosis was nearly fatal
Kerry Max Cook at Northwestern University School of Law in December 2002. Kerry Max Cook was twice convicted and twice sentenced to death for the 1977 murder and mutilation of a 21-year-old secretary in Tyler, Texas. The first conviction, in 1978, rested primarily on the testimony of a jailhouse snitch who claimed that Cook had […]
READ MORECircumcision Case to Proceed to Trial
Circumcision Creeps into Court In 2001, in North Dakota, District Judge Cynthia Rothe-Seeger turned away a motion for summary judgment by defendants in a circumcision case. The court decided the disagreement could go to trial in 2003. The decision to be made? Can a male infant, upon reaching the age of majority, sue his doctor […]
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A 31 year old factory worker who had threatened to kill him “and eat his heart out.” Edward’s had been held captive for five terrifying hours. Edwards, who insisted that he was not a homosexual, told police that he managed to escape by gaining Dahmer’s trust during a four-hour conversation. “He underestimated me,” the 32-year-old […]
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