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...young juror cried softly all day. Soon after the verdict Cave begin researching the issue of juror counseling, and what she found was not much comfort. Jury counseling, or debriefing as it is sometimes called, has been used in several high-profile cases including the trial of Jeffrey Dahmer and the Oklahoma City bombing case, according to the National Center for State Courts in Arlington, Va. But there is no institutionalized system at either the state or federal court level and only one formal, funded debriefing program in the country - Seattle, Washington's King County court system, which...
...Klux Klan in Mississippi during the 1960s, when the Klan instigated a campaign of anti-Semitic and antiblack intimidation and violence; in a prison near Jackson, Miss., where he was serving a life sentence for the 1966 bombing of the home of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer. Each of Bowers' first four trials for the Dahmer murder ended in a mistrial. He was finally convicted in 1998, but Ellie Dahmer, the victim's widow, was unappeased. "He lived a lot longer than Vernon Dahmer did," she said...
...rights causes. PETA’s traveling exhibits only alienate the vast majority of people who find nothing, and certainly not the butcher of animals, comparable to the tragedy of the Holocaust. Nor is PETA interested in convincing ranchers—who were collectively compared to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer by the organization’s leadership—to adopt more humane methods of slaughtering animals. They seem more concerned about launching shock campaigns to convince (vainly) Americans to go vegan. In any case, it would be fallacious to think of PETA as an organization bent on saving animals?...
...Derf's skill as cartoonist and storyteller make "Trashed" and "My Friend Dahmer" two of the most entertaining autobiographical comix I have ever read. By far the more enjoyable read, "Trashed" rivals Charles Bukowski's novel, "Factotum" for minimum-wage comedy. "Dahmer," on the other hand, has its own sort of disgusting verisimilitude. It turns out that Jeffrey Dahmer once got paid to "act" spastic in a middle-American shopping mall, and did it for two hours to the utter obliviousness of the authorities. You couldn't make this stuff...
...Trashed," and "My Friend Dahmer," can be found at better comicbook stores or through Derf's website...