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Raised in Trenton, N.J., then a segregated town, Higginbotham pursued a career in law because of his first-hand experience with injustice. The son of a cleaning woman and a laborer, he often told personal stories of his rise through racial injustice in his lectures as lessons of how "voiceless and forgotten people" could overcome obstacles...
...slowing down. Currently he's chairing the City of New Brunswick's environmental commission, and Andrews, who was just awarded a National Science Foundation grant to map the pathways of Trenton pollutants, got Henn named as an adviser. "He gets to donate his insights for free; in turn he is allowed to try and leverage me for one of his next projects," says Andrews. And there will be more projects...
SENTENCED. JESSE TIMMENDEQUAS, 36, child molester convicted of raping and killing seven-year-old Megan Kanka; to death by injection; in Trenton...
CONVICTED. JESSE TIMMENDEQUAS, 36, sex offender whose trial for killing Megan Kanka, then 7, provoked the passage of a federal bill requiring that communities be warned of the presence of sexual felons; of kidnapping, sexual assault and murder; in Trenton...
...TRENTON, N.J.: A jury found repeat sex offender Jesse Timmendequas guilty of the murder of seven-year-old Megan Kanka. After only four hours of deliberations, jurors found Timmendequas guilty of kidnapping, four counts of aggravated sexual assault and two felony murder counts. Timmendequas could receive either the death penalty or 30 years to life in prison. The case received national attention after it was discovered that Timmendequas, who brutally beat and raped the young girl before killing her, had a record of sex crimes against children. The resulting outcry inspired New Jersey's 'Megan's Law' requiring that communities...