Word: trialing
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Charles Ng, 37, the man accused of killing Kathleen Allen and 11 other victims, finally went on trial last week, more than 13 years after his arrest. Ng and Leonard Lake, both former Marines, are believed to have killed up to two dozen men, women and children during the mid-1980s after luring them to their remote cabin in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Northern California. They allegedly forced the women to become sex slaves and took scores of pornographic photographs and videotapes of them before killing them and burning the bodies...
...took years to bring him to trial in the U.S. First Ng was tried in Canada for the shooting and spent four years in jail. He fought extradition to the U.S. all the way to the Canadian Supreme Court before finally being returned to California in 1991. Once there, he became a jailhouse lawyer, filing complaints about everything from prison food to his attorneys. After a change of venue because of pretrial publicity, Orange County superior court judge John J. Ryan had finally had enough. When Ng, representing himself, refused to answer questions, Ryan ordered court-appointed lawyers to take...
...have their professions marked out for them. But so do Gentiles. Gentiles are great in certain fields--like coal-mining. Ever seen a Jew coal-miner? With a little light on his yarmulke?" He also manages to take stale issues and still make them mildly amusing. The O.J. Simpson trial for instance, "proved that the innocent until proven guilty rule no longer applies. Now, you're innocent until proven guilty and even after you're proven guilty, you're still innocent." And as for President Clinton, he simply makes references to the "sex maniacs in Martha's Vineyard" and gets...
Spooky: Yeah. I think these are very intriguing times. The ultramedia scandal of the Lewinsky trial vs. the OJ trial vs. the global economic system on the verge of collapse, We're on the verge, I think of a global depression, but most of the U.S. people are too busy watching Baywatch or waiting for a new album to come...
Whodunit? "Lizzie Borden: The Mystery Continues," by Christopher Daley, marshalled the evidence into a fascinating slide show and lecture about the crime scene and trial. 7 p.m. Charlestown Branch Library, 179 Main St., Charlestown. 242-1248. FREE...