After declaring Dawn Holmstrom a hostile witness, Judge Carpeneti hoped to get the trial back on track. Once the jury…
Juneau is not so far from Ketchikan that word doesn’t travel. More than that, there was already an extensive record…
Mary Anne Henry’s opening statement in the second trial began where her first one left off. She even started with…
The last issue to be resolved was the defense motion to dismiss on grounds of double jeopardy. If the judge…
Phil Weidner was ever the bulldog. Even with the second trial apparently going forward, he fought it at every step.…
Within moments of the mistrial decision, Mary Anne Henry said John Peel would be retried. She had already contacted State…
At this trial, every witness seemed to be under suspicion from one side or the other. Every story was subject…
The controversy surrounding Jim Robinson would not die. Phil Weidner wouldn’t let it. Instead, he called him in as a so-called…
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…