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...jury award to the killer, Wendell Williamson, now 30. But that decision will be appealed, and other lawsuits are pending. And this week the case will be examined in Santa Rosa, Calif., at a conference of psychiatrists alarmed at the prospect of being held liable for crimes their patients commit...
Most folks in and around Chapel Hill are outraged that Williamson may collect a quarter of a million dollars for each person he killed. "Is there any crime you can commit these days and manage to be blamed for?" Wanda Jackson wrote in a scathing letter to the Raleigh News & Observer. But several jurors in the civil trial have become ardent advocates for better treatment of the mentally ill and visit Williamson at the mental hospital where he is confined. And other townspeople sympathize with Williamson as a promising young man who somehow spiraled into madness...
...taken to a hospital psychiatric ward for 10 days of evaluation. During that time, the staff learned that he had his father's M-1 rifle in his apartment and asked a judge to commit him. But Williamson convinced the judge that he would be fine if he could return to classes. He continued, though, to be haunted by voices, and stalked the campus with a video camera, trying to prove that people were manipulating him with psychic messages. "It occurred to me that I was losing my mind, but it was only a fleeting thought," Williamson recalls. "I thought...
...suspects on the theory that by proving everyone else innocent, he can close down paths the defense lawyers for JOHN and PATSY RAMSEY might travel. Says a source within the investigation: "Anytime the Ramseys name a suspect or a piece of evidence that they think could prove someone else committed this crime, we have to check it out. If we can eliminate it, then that helps prove that an intruder didn't commit this crime." Hunter's wide-net investigation strategy, however, may have its flaws. One investigation source told TIME, "The thing in this case shouldn't be closing...
...were necessary in order to win the conflict. NATO's success and credibility were crucial to U.S. interests, he argued. He resisted taking swipes at Clinton. "It's easy to second-guess the Administration," Bush said. "The question is what do we do next. America must be careful to commit our military. But when we do so, we must do so ferociously. Once in, we should be in to win, and we should take no options off the table." You couldn't ask for a more explicit echo of McCain's position. Sooner than he might have liked, George...