When lawyer Phil Weidner finally got his win in State of Alaska v. John Kenneth Peel, he also got the…
For the second jury in John Peel’s murder trial, it was a constant parade-shuffle in and out of the courtroom.…
Final arguments are supposed to be final. Phil Weidner had taken some of the air out of that notion, with…
With Sue Domenowske-Page’s testimony at an end, the sole remaining witness who claimed to have seen John Peel at an…
If anything was certain in this trial — in these trials, really — it was that John Peel was still…
The cross-examination of Larry Demmert, Jr. had to finish by noon, March 30, 1988, Judge Carpeneti said. Or else. But…
Trials can be boring and most trials qualify. Murder trials, on the other hand, often reach an emotional state. The…
March 1988 Phillip Weidner had a way of reaching into the grittiest, grimiest details of a criminal case. As always,…
When Larry Demmert took the stand on March 17th, the prosecution strategy was to keep his testimony to a minimum.…
After declaring Dawn Holmstrom a hostile witness, Judge Carpeneti hoped to get the trial back on track. Once the jury…