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...complained of tiredness. "We thought it was because of the stress of losing her daughter," says a villager. Pranee visited a clinic, but like her child, was sent home, and then returned to Bangkok. Less than two weeks later, Pranee died of bird flu, the country's 10th confirmed victim of the disease?but one with a major distinction. On Sept. 28, a joint World Health Organization (WHO) and Thai investigation announced what scientists studying the H5N1 bird-flu virus had long feared: Pranee hadn't contracted the disease from chickens. She had almost certainly caught it in the hospital...
CourtTV’s live coverage of the Alexander Pring-Wilson murder trial has focused squarely on one angle: the divergent backgrounds of Pring-Wilson and his victim, Michael Colono. In the process, the network’s anchors have discovered every possible euphemism for “Hispanic”—our favorite was a pointed reference to Colono’s black headband—and even spent time last week ruminating on the possible effect of the hyphen in Pring-Wilson’s last name...
Three relatives of the victim, Michael Colono, are slated to take the stand today. And in a move that is likely to tug at the jurors’ heart strings, Cindy Guzzman, the mother of Colono’s four-year-old daughter, will be the prosecution’s final witness...
Peter T. Elikann, a Boston-based defense attorney, said in an interview that prosecutors could use Colono’s relatives to “humanize” him for the jury and preempt any attempts by the defense to paint the victim in a negative light. The defense has already pointed out Colono’s juvenile record and criminal charges of drug possession...
...There’s always the chance that the defense will try to muddy up the victim a bit, to say that the victim could have been a dangerous person with a criminal record,” Elikann said...