The drug theory of the Investor murders is, to the say the least, firmly entrenched. It is true that there…
Final arguments are supposed to be final. Phil Weidner had taken some of the air out of that notion, with…
The idea that John Peel was someone mysterious stood, in a way, as something anomalous. In real life he had,…
Every once in a while, something crosses my desk that makes me go — huh? This is one of them.…
How do you select a jury? There are as many theories as there are lawyers. But attorneys know what they…
The controversy surrounding Jim Robinson would not die. Phil Weidner wouldn’t let it. Instead, he called him in as a so-called…
As the Peel case wandered into defense territory, Phil Weidner scored a hit. And a miss. It was all about…
John Peel’s defense predictably countered that testimony pointing to a stocky, dark-complexioned Native man raised questions about a core prosecution…
Allegations of witness manipulation aside, there was one witness the State presumably hadn’t manipulated. He was the first witness for…
Phil Weidner was definitive when it came to judging the state of the prosecution’s case at this psychic and procedural…