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In July the former mayor of the 1980s cult-dominated town of Rajneeshpuram, Oregon, said in court that he’d used various schemes to keep people who weren’t affiliated with the cult from voting, including tampering with the food at a restaurant to make them sick and coating courthouse doorknobs with a chemical irritant as election day approached.
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In March a superior court judge in Boston found John J. Locke not guilty of assaulting the police commissioner’s driver, who is also a police officer. Testimony showed that Locke, who is white, shouted a racial epithet and, with no provocation, pounded the officer, who is black, leaving him with cuts, a black eye, and loosened teeth. The judge found that Locke, a manic-depressive, had failed to take his prescribed doses of lithium for two months prior to the attack and let him go on the promise that he’d take his medication.
