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Just what is "reasonable" when it comes to making and selling guns? Victims' lawyers are starting to haul out some tough cases. In an Oakland, Calif., suit headed to trial soon, the family of 15-year-old Kenzo Dix says he was accidentally killed by his 14-year-old friend because the Beretta that was used still had a bullet in the chamber ready to fire when the gun's magazine was empty. The gun should have had a "loaded-chamber indicator" to make that clear, the family argues, along with "personalized gun" technology that would have prevented an unauthorized...
...include child-safety locks by the end of this year. It all looks nice and amicable, but lawyers for victims insist these changes are coming only because the industry is worried about the cost of digging in its heels. Says Attorney John McNicholas, who is bringing one case to trial: "There's nothing like affecting the bottom line of corporate America to get its attention...
...Woodham, who was by all accounts "crushed," as a classmate told police, when Christina Menefee broke up with him. (Significantly, her father says Luke's mom was so overbearing she "drove them apart... If they went to get ice cream, she was there.") After the split, Luke testified at trial, "I didn't eat. I didn't sleep. It destroyed me." On D-day, Christina was apparently his primary target; she died of her wounds...
...Police said Oliver eluded officers who came to the hospital -- until Tuesday, when she walked into the Orange County Jail and surrendered. She was detained briefly and was later released on $9,000 bond. No word on whether the trial will be webcast...
Prosecutors in the ENNIS COSBY murder trial, scheduled to begin opening arguments this week, have an evidence problem eerily reminiscent of the O.J. Simpson case. At issue is a single human hair, roots intact, that was found in a knit cap wrapped around a .38-cal. revolver connected with the murder. Ballistic tests suggest that the bullet that killed Cosby came from that gun, and DNA testing links the hair to MIKAIL MARKHASEV. One problem: when the L.A.P.D.'s lab technicians inspected the cap after it was found in March 1997, they found only "shed" hairs without roots; reliable...