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...small seaside town about an hour north of Barnstable began another unsparing manhunt this month in hopes of solving a three-year-old murder. Police in Truro, Mass., intend to collect the DNA of every one of the town's 790 males. After that, the cops may cast a wider net, reaching neighboring towns. They started by approaching men at Truro's few outposts--the post office, the pizza place, the grocery store--and politely asking each if they could swipe a lollipop-size swab inside his cheek. It's strictly voluntary, and the Truro men can say no. Then...
...mask and bludgeon Sullivan, his former classmate at Jefferson Medical College, for 15 seconds before fleeing the scene. Onlookers recorded the car’s license plate number, and he was arrested at his parents’ New Jersey residence the following morning. Police said they found the alleged murder weapon...
...Criminal Defense Lawyers, if certain “cognitive dysfunctions”—bipolar disorder and depression with anxiety among them—prevented someone from forming the “specific intent to kill,” charges can be reduced from first to third degree murder...
Thomas Malone, the Assistant District Attorney assigned to the case, dismissed the possibility that Ali’s medical history will shield him from prosecution for first degree murder...
...simply too much pressure" to follow through and avoid the impression that Mississippi was backsliding, says a high-ranking state official. The arrest is part of a broader purge of the South's segregationist skeletons--including Mississippi's 1994 conviction of Byron de la Beckwith in the 1963 murder of black civil rights leader Medgar Evers and Alabama's 2002 conviction of Bobby Frank Cherry for the 1963 bombing of a black Birmingham church...