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Turn Your Head and Cough

In a bizarre twist in a bizarre case, M. William Graybill, the judge presiding over the case of the Florida woman accused in the murder of “Lobster Boy”, her allegedly abusive husband who was employed as a carnival performer [see Consider this a Divorce], has come down with tuberculosis, and 18 others in the courthouse have also tested positive for the disease. Another judge took over the case, and promptly reversed Graybill’s ruling that the woman could not claim self-defense in the case as an abused wife. The woman was found guilty of murder this week. (Reuters) ...Can a “movie of the week” be far behind?


Publication Date: 31 July 1994

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