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...bathroom for customers. He then led the ex-con outside to show him where he could discreetly relieve himself. Yet Abbott's 24 years in violence-steeped prisons and reform schools, Fisher argued, had caused him to mistake Adan's ordinary gestures for provocation. It was a "tragic misunderstanding," Abbott claimed in court, that made him lash out. The jury, which deliberated for two days, rejected a graver guilty verdict of second-degree murder, which assumes an unmitigated intent to kill...
...frail and the elderly, for luckless travelers exposed for too long a time to the bite of winter. By week's end more than 230 people had died, victims of hypothermia (low body temperature), heart attacks and a variety of icy disasters. By far the most tragic accident was the crash in Washington, D.C., of a Florida-bound Boeing 737 that plowed across a traffic-clogged bridge over the Potomac and plunged into the icy river. The death toll: 78, including three infants. The most prominent explanation of the crash cited ice that may have glazed the plane...
...courtroom tension exploded a few minutes later. Under questioning by Fisher, Abbott testified that he had thought Adan was about to attack him with a knife. "It was a tragic misunderstanding," said Abbott, covering his eyes with a hand. From a front row of seats, Henry Howard, Adan's father-in-law, shouted: "You intended it, you scum! You scum, you useless piece of s---. You and Mailer and all the [other] creeps." The standing-room-only audience burst into applause, and court officials hustled Howard out of the courtroom. Fisher asked Judge Irving Lang to declare a mistrial...
...unhappy twist of fate, Melvin was shot to death by a policeman during the investigation of a breakin. Newark police call the shooting a tragic accident. Guardian Angel Founder Curtis Sliwa, 27, insists it was a "coldblooded killing." Contending that neither the police nor the local prosecutor could perform an impartial inquiry, Sliwa at week's end led his group on a march to Washington to demand federal intervention...
Fleming has yet to find his scoring touch this season and recently suffered a tragic loss in his family, which seems to have distracted him further this past week...