Students from five schools submitted works to the Nemeth Art Center's annual youth art show, with the top six awards going to four students from Menahga and two from Bemidji.
convict. and they kept returning to that autopsy photo of juanita with the strange double bruise. and then an extraordinary thing happened in the jury room. jurors paul scott and dave brame got up and decided to see what might cause a bruise like that. can you show me what you did? all i did was come behind him and the bruises were on her right leg and i just pushed like this, that s when he went forward. i didn t actually even kick. i just pushed with my foot. and that did it, that demonstration? it almost made the hair stand up on the back of your neck that everybody was at the same point in thinking that, oh, my god that s probably exactly what happened. after 11 hours, they had their verdict. counsel, please rise. we the jury find the defendant, thomas david richardson, guilty of murder in the first degree. thank you. you may be seated. tom richardson had been found
marital bliss. that expression says very clearly, i m going to get you, bitch. the defense attorney ended by denouncing the investigation of tom richardson as a rush to judgment of an innocent man who loved his wife. tom richardson was a suspect before they even dragged juanita s body off the rocks and pulled her into the cold water of lake superior. the way the interrogation was conducted was purposely designed to gather incriminating statements. the judge handed the case to the jury. on their first vote, they were divided. seven jurors thought tom was guilty. the other five weren t ready to convict. and they kept returning to that autopsy photo of juanita with the strange double bruise. and then an extraordinary thing happened in the jury room. jurors paul scott and dave brame