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Last May juror Jim Thomas, 69, of Dalton, Georgia, voted to convict Wayne Cservak of child molesting but regretted his decision soon afterward and paid for a lawyer to handle Cservak’s appeal. The victim then admitted he had lied about Cservak, and in December the case against him was dismissed. Cservak’s lawyer said Thomas’s act was “unheard of, not only in Georgia legal history but in the entire American legal history.” Actually, in January lawyers before the Connecticut supreme court appealed the murder conviction of Adrian Santiago, funded with $12,000 from the life savings of regretful juror June Briere.
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Pro football star Sean Gilbert sat out the 1997 season because the Washington Redskins had offered him only $20 million over the next five years. Gilbert says God told him that he should receive more.
Peter Konings, 38, of the Netherlands was convicted in London in January of six counts of sexual misconduct related to his habit of fondling other people’s buttocks on public buses. In all of the incidents Konings had stuck his toe through a gap in the seat in front of him to molest a woman sitting there.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration by Shawn Belshwender.
