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...sign of our nation's benevolence or its laxity that Yoder is not in prison for these offenses but is instead hospitalized? Since 1991, Yoder has been involuntarily committed to a Chester, Ill., asylum, the Chester Mental Health Center. Yoder, it may surprise you to learn, would rather be in prison. He fought a long legal battle during the 1990s to get himself prosecuted for sending menacing letters to people like Playboy CEO Christie Hefner and the late M&M tycoon Forrest Mars Sr. because he wanted to be sentenced to a fixed term rather than remain committed indefinitely...
...prepared public defender represented Yoder, and he allowed Vallabhaneni to assert without proof that Yoder had committed "several" assaults in prison. Schuwerk, who failed to mention that he himself had prosecuted Yoder's first commitment in 1982, ruled from the bench that Yoder should go to the asylum again...
...Yoder was bipolar and delusional and that he had a history of violence. Given a choice between two competing experts, the jury played it safe. Who wants to be responsible for loosing a madman? Yoder repeatedly faced this conundrum in court--convincing jurors he was sane from inside an asylum. The state had a strong case: jurors heard about Yoder's battery of women. They heard about the time he got into a scuffle with a guard and bit him. They heard about incidents when he became agitated and had to be secluded. They heard that Yoder always refused...
...naval vessel sank a South Korean military speedboat on patrol in the Yellow Sea. North Korean officials said that shots were fired only defensively, and both sides claimed that the battle - the worst in three years - took place in their respective territorial waters. AUSTRALIA Mass Breakout More than 30 asylum seekers went on the run in South Australia after activists helped to stage a mass escape from the Woomera detention center. A search was mounted across 200,000 square kilometers of desert by police and dogs with helicopter and plane support. Authorities said that the harsh conditions would make...
...close to the border with Pakistan. But there seemed no end to mishaps: a U.S. bombing raid mistakenly killed more than 10 civilians, and more than 300 British soldiers were quarantined after 38 were struck down by a contagious gastric illness. CHINA Confusion Says Three North Koreans who sought asylum in a U.S. consulate in Shenyang, and two others at the Canadian embassy in Beijing, were finally allowed to fly to South Korea via Singapore. But confusion surrounded the fate of five other North Korean defectors seized by Chinese police in the grounds of the Japanese consulate in Shenyang. Japan...