With the jury seated, Judge Carpeneti faced a barrage of requests. As always, the agenda featured old allegations and even…
How do you select a jury? There are as many theories as there are lawyers. But attorneys know what they…
On November 28th, 1986, as Judge Schulz was set to hear defense motions, Mary Anne Henry surprised him. She was…
Arguments in State v. Peel ended with a thud, not a bang. After a dispiriting attempt to grind Jim Robinson…
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…
Phil Weidner was definitive when it came to judging the state of the prosecution’s case at this psychic and procedural…
When the prosecution announced it was resting its case, the spectators let out an audible sigh of relief. That same sigh…