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In a Saint Louis courtroom on October 19 accused rapist Anthony Minor had his spirits temporarily lifted when the victim, who was on the witness stand, confidently assured her attorney that her assailant was in the courtroom but then mistakenly pointed to a stranger seated close to the jury box. (Minor wasn’t helped by the mistake, since he’d already admitted to having sex with her, though he said it was consensual.)
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In June police found Christine Walker, 23, and Jeremy Buckels, 24, in a Council Bluffs, Iowa, park after its 10 PM closing. After negotiating with prosecutors, the two decided to plead guilty and pay a fine. But Walker didn’t want a trespassing conviction on her record, so the prosecutor arranged for the conviction to be listed as a violation of a 1975 city ordinance against worrying black squirrels, the city’s mascot.
In Kansas City, Missouri, in June Keith Smith, 26, was convicted of strangling and stabbing to death a minister and his housekeeper. In a videotaped statement to the police at the time of the murders Smith said Chucky, the murderous doll in the movie Child’s Play, had caused the mayhem.
