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Wisconsin Prisoner Pleads No Contest to Helping Cellmate Commit Suicide
Loaded on April 15, 2011
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2011, page 48
On June 1, 2010, a Wisconsin prisoner entered a no-contest plea to charges that he helped his cellmate hang himself.Adam Peterson, 20, and Joshua Walters, 21, were unlikely acquaintances. Peterson, never in trouble with the law before, was serving a life sentence for murder at the Dodge Correctional Institution ...
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