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California Billionaire Pushes States to Adopt “Marsy’s Law”
by Matt Clarke
California billionaire Dr. Henry T. Nicholas and his mother entered a grocery store in 1983, a few days after his sister, Marsalee, was murdered. There they ran into her boyfriend, who had been arrested for the crime. They were surprised, shocked. Just coming from a visit to ...
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