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Quick wrap up

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

From elsewhere: Montana keeps the death penalty, for now. New DNA testing from rape kits implicates three separate men in the ?Yogurt Shop Killings,? an infamous 1991 case in Austin in which four girls working at an I Can?t Believe It?s Not Yogurt were raped and murdered. Unfortunately, none of the three profiles revealed by the DNA testing match the two men convicted of the crimes.  - Balko Webb Crime Bill Gets Unlikely Support - The Huffington Post “Three capital trials were scheduled to begin in North Carolina this month, but only one has proceeded as far as jury selection.  In Burke County, Phillip Kyle Blankenship pleaded guilty to the murder of Olivia Seals and received a sentence of life imprisonment.  In Rowan County, the trial of Mandy Latasha Clontz has been delayed for undisclosed reasons...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 30, 2009 (boomark / email).