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Unexpected Happy Endings

Mark Bennett | October 4, 2008

The terrain in last week’s DUI jury trial shifted unexpectedly yesterday afternoon. Two of the State’s witnesses decided that they had better things to do after lunch on a Friday than return to court.
One of the witnesses, the arresting officer who was on the stand when we
broke at eight o’clock Thursday evening, had (I [...]