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Jury starts deliberations in Walgreens fire trial

Original post made on Jan 29, 2009

A 12-person jury received final instructions from U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday in San Jose and began their deliberations in the trial of Donald Ray Williams, the East Palo Alto man charged with setting the fire that destroyed the Walgreens building in downtown Palo Alto in 2007.

Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 3:57 PM

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Posted by Webster&Forest
a resident of Downtown North
on Jan 29, 2009 at 12:43 pm

"Williams [...] intently wrote on a notepad for almost three hours during the closing arguments" Possibly it looked something like this:

All work no play makes Donald a dull boy All work no play makes Donald a dull boy All work no play makes Donald a dull boy All work no play makes Donald a dull boy All work no play makes Donald a dull boy ...


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