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Bitterness and sarcasm marked the cross-examination throughout. At one point Ford stopped his testimony and appealed to the judge to step in, objecting to the "insistence and the implication" of prosecutor William L. Phinney...
...Mercy killing is an act similar to ..." murder," argued County Solicitor William H. Craig. "In other words," his colleague, State's Attorney General William L. Phinney, added, "simply because the adjective 'mercy' is inserted before 'killing' does not alter the situation. If a prospective juror took the witness stand and said, 'I have a prejudice and opinion against killing,' certainly that is not in and of itself a basis for disqualification." Judge and lawyers questioned Mrs. English further. "You say you do have some prejudice in your mind against the defendant...
...Phinney tried to make it clear to "those jurors of the Catholic faith" that there is no inconsistency between church law and New Hampshire law on the matter of killing. Altogether, 70 veniremen were examined; Justice Harold E. Wescott excused 34 for cause; the defense used 17 peremptory challenges, the prosecution seven. From heavily Roman Catholic (60%) Manchester, justice finally settled on a jury which included nine Catholics...
Prosecutor Phinney retold the story of the morning of Dec. 4 when Dr. Sander, bending over the wasted figure of Abbie Borroto, 59, told a nurse to bring him a sterile syringe. "He inserted the needle into the vein." Two or three minutes later -"Dr. Sander handed the needle back to the nurse and indicated that Mrs. Borroto was dead ..." A week later he dictated a notation to the record librarian: "Patient was given 10 cc. of air intravenously repeated four times. Expired within ten minutes after this was started...
...students involved in the killing were immediately suspended by the college. On June 1, Doxsee, accused of "causing mortal injuries," was fined $500, and given a one year suspended sentence. The same day, Phinney announced that Felton would figure in another trial in the fall...