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In article <12JAN199311321736@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu>, lippard@skyblu.ccit.arizona.edu (James J. Lippard) writes:

|>    A second case in 1980 involved Steve Linscott, a 26-year-old Bible student,
|> who dreamed he saw a man beating someone to death with a blunt instrument,
|> which he reported to the police.  The evening of his dream, a nursing
|> student named Karen Phillips was beaten to death less than half a block
|> away.  Linscott was arrested and convicted of her murder on the basis
|> of some hairs found at Phillips' house, but a retrial was ordered in 1987
|> when an appeals court ruled that prosecutors had distorted the physical
|> evidence.  I don't know the outcome of that case for certain, but I
|> believe I've read somewhere recently that DNA testing cleared Linscott.
|> (This should be taken with a grain of salt.)

	I don't remember if the charges in the second trial were dropped or 
if he was acquitted, but he is indeed now free, based on the DNA test 
results.

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Steve Schaffner        sschaff@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu
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