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In Payson, Arizona, in a July pretrial hearing on a slander lawsuit, Judge Michael Flournoy permitted “testimony” from a man who’d been dead for 500 years. Channeler Trina Kamp took the witness stand and “contacted” the spiritual leader of the Church of the Immortal Consciousness, the late Dr. Pahlvon Duran, to “explain” that a local couple’s attack against the church was wrong. Judge Flournoy said later that he’d allowed the seance because he thought Kamp would drop the lawsuit once Duran’s testimony was heard.
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Chiropractors in the news: In July the Massachusetts board that regulates chiropractors considered revoking the license of Ronald Goldstein after testimony from former patients that he touched them sexually during examinations, tried to market a hypnosis service for breast enlargement, and talked to them about his having been abducted by space aliens. And in October Dr. John Schuett, 36, was charged with battery in Waukesha, Wisconsin, for allegedly having grabbed a woman in his office, putting his mouth over her right eye, sucking on it, stabbing her in the neck with an acupuncture needle, and reading aloud from the Bible.
In November in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, suspected thief Robert Breen, 35, was arrested after a brief chase down an alley near a bar. Officer David Kareemo discovered Breen squatting with a garbage can over most of his body but with his feet clearly visible.
