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PEOPLE v. WALES

138 A.D.2d 766 (1988)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. James B. Wales, Sr., Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

March 3, 1988

Yesawich, Jr., J.

Defendant was convicted of the brutal rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl who had stopped at his home collecting for her newspaper route. After a police search uncovered the girl's body in defendant's basement, he admitted killing her.

Extensive pretrial publicity on this case, other contemporaneous murders and child abuse incidents in the locality prompted a protracted jury voir...

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