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Appellate Practice

Nov. 6, 2001

Conflicted Loyalties Haunt Trial In Gruesome Death-Penalty Case

WASHINGTON - When Walter Mickens Jr. went on trial in 1993 for the brutal murder and attempted forcible sodomy of 17-year-old Timothy Hall in Newport News, Va., Mickens was in the dark about key relationships that might affect his fate.

By David F. Pike
Daily Journal Staff Writer
        WASHINGTON - When Walter Mickens Jr. went on trial in 1993 for the brutal murder and attempted forcible sodomy of 17-year-old Timothy Hall in Newport News, Va., Mickens was in the dark about key relationships that might...

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