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...Friday, a 23-member grand jury indicted Goetz on four charges--all related to weapons possession. The New York Post went wild: "BERNIE COEIZ." He certainly did the indictment included nothing about attempted, nothing about attempted murder, despite the fact that one of Goetz's victims remains in a coma and is paralyzed from the waist down...
...fled. According to the prosecution, Goetz intended to kill the teen- agers, although he did not consider himself to be in a life-threatening situation. One of the four, Darryl Cabey, 19, who was shot in the spine and is paralyzed from the waist down, slipped into a coma at the hospital last week and was listed in critical condition. Goetz is due in court this week to learn if he will be indicted. District Attorney Robert Morgenthau has refused to grant immunity to Goetz or to the youths in exchange for testimony. As a result, both the shooter...
...ground that the remaining evidence was "woefully insufficient." Said Von Bülow: "I can only pray and hope that everything will turn out all right." Martha Von Bülow, known as Sunny, remains in a New York City hospital, in the fourth year of a deep coma...
Jimmy was then transferred to Children's Memorial, where doctors gave him massive doses of barbiturates to maintain his coma, a technique increasingly used in head-injury patients. Reason: the drugs reduce the brain's need for oxygen and glucose and lessen the chance of swelling...
...Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., John Holmes, who lay dying in his Boston home in 1899. A nurse kept feeling his feet, and explained to someone in the room, "If his feet are warm, he is alive .. . Nobody ever died with his feet warm." Holmes rose out of his coma long enough to observe, "John Rogers* did!" Then he slipped away...