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Show ; The Daily Herald Sunday, February 16, 1992 - Judge OKs class : - CINCINNATI (AP) Women ; claiming health problems from silifcone gel breast implants can file a joint lawsuit, a federal judge ruled. '. ,U.S. District Judge Carl Rubin on Friday combined two lawsuits filed in Cincinnati federal court arid allowed other women to join ; n th lawsuit. A hearing tcfset standards for joining the law-- l cation. The decision means that who already has pleaded guilty to the murders, will receive a mandatory life sentence for each count. A judge will determine when, or if, he will be eligible for parole. A hearing was scheduled for Monday. suit was set for Feb. 28. Judge Laurence Gram Jr. 'stalm The original two cases, filed reading of the jury's verdict Jan. 24, demand unspecified dam-- " brought to a climax one of the most ages from companies that devel-- '. stunningly gruesome murder cases oped, made, distributed or sold the in American history. As he announced the jurors' 10-- 2 silicone gel implants. decisions, reading off a grim roll Rubin made no finding on ; call of Dahmer's prey, a shudder ; whether the claims have merit. emotion rolled through one vicof The defendants include Dow tim's after another in the family of Corning Corp. Midland, Mich., shouted in pain. Some I the world's largest maker of sili-- I gallery. sobs. One or with rocked Others cone gel implants, and seven other smiled. two cdjnpanies. as he Dahmer sat has throughout the three-wee- k trial. "God bless you. I love you my : brother," one relative said to District Attorney E. Michael McCann A DC- - as he walked out of the courtroom. TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) 8 cargo plane struck a tree and Other relatives hugged McCann crashed in a cornfield Saturday, and thanked him. .killing all four people on board, "They gave a powerful, ijugt three months after making an ful argument," said Teresa Smith, 'emergency landing when a cargo sister of victim Edward W. Smith. ; door flew open, the airline said. The plane crashed at 3:27 a.m. about two miles north 'of Toledo Express Airport after ; twice attempting to land, airport 1 director Jim McCue said . least 1 2 firefighters and other r rescue workers ,were hurt fighting AnothLOS ANGELES (AP) : the blaze. into slammed er storm aupowerful struck a but tree, I "The plane d California on Saturthorities were not certain if that that played a role in the crash. Rain and day, dropping heavy snow lured skiers mountains to and J fog had reduced visibility to about inch an of rain an to dumping miles. up I two hour that left rivers bulging and roads flooded anew. It was the third destructive storm system to assault the state in 1 a week. The storms have left at least eight people dead, five missLINCOLNTON, N.C. (AP) ing and $23 million in damage. A boy pointed a re- - Nearly 15 inches of rain have fallvqlver at a drug store clerk and a en in some areas. guard as he and his Saturday's storm, born in the f brother stole $4.90 worth of valen- Gulf of Alaska and fed by tropical tines and notebook paper, police El Nino conditions over the South ; said. Pacific, failed to pack the relentj The older boy told investigators less, g punch that he. had seen similar crimes on tele-- t came with storms earlier in the vision. week. Store employees recognized the J Still, it dumped more than 2 feet ; boys from previous visits and of snow in the northern Sierra Necalled police after the holdup vada, putting at least a dent in the i Wednesday. state's drought and I The boys were addressing the promising a big cash injection for cards, featuring the Incredible ski resort operators. to Hulk, Batman and Spider-MaSince the storms began Feb. 9, i classmates at S. Ray Lowder Ele- - four people have died in traffic mentary School when police offi-- t crashes, two by drowning and a cers found them at home. They live wfth a grandparent. I The older boy was held in a j juvenile detention center in Dallas. N HENNING, Tenn. (AP) Alex : Haley was buried Saturday a few paces from the front porch where i he listened as a child to the family in stories that inspired his monumenAn J tal LARGO, Fla. (AP) search for his roots. woman was charged with year-ol- d made grandfathers and "He manslaughter after her newborn grandmothers and baby was discovered dead in a suand I closet, hidden beneath a pile of the Rev. Jesse Jackson perstars," J clothes, officials said. told mourners Saturday. "Alex Tabatha Turner, fearing her Haley resurrected the generations family's reaction, hid her pregnan- - of the connecting points. ' ' c and delivered the boy Haley's novel "Roots: The Saga 't alene in her bedroom Jan. 27, said of an American Family" won a ' police Capt. John Walker. Pulitzer Prize in 1977 and was the i he boy died within a day basis of a TV miniseries watched Jwtfhout food, medical care or a J name, according to an indictment. J .Ms. Turner, mother of a 14-- J month-ol- d girl, lives with her par- ents and was afraid to let her fami-- i Iy know she was pregnant again, ! -; Dah-me- r, U If- - , W 7- class-actio- d, !4arSo plane crash kills four people - X :?Mniiiiriiriii ' it - -T .1,- v." -i Relatives of the victims of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer gather in prayer outside Milwaukee County Court Friday afternoon during a break in final arguments in Dahmer's sanity trial. The jury found Dahmer sane at the time of the murders of 15 men and boys. "This was not an evil man. This was a sick man whose sickness rose to the level of mental illness," Boyle said. He maintained that Dahmer suffered from necrophilia, a sexual attraction to corpses; ed nearly 10 hours. The unusual trial required only that 10 of the jurors agree. After the verdicts were read, Boyle was granted a meeting with Dahmer and Dahmer's parents. The law also put the burden of proof on the defense to prove that Dahmer who admitted to boiling skulls, eating body parts and havwas insane. ing sex with corpses To be proven insane in Wiscon- all." ' stop. The jury deliberated about five hours, Stahle said. Court officials said earlier that deliberations last- AP Laserphotc "They brought back the faith I'd lost in the justice system . " Another sister of Smith, Carolyn Smith, said she felt some sympathy for Dahmer. "Because I am Catholic, I was raised that way," she said. "At times I have hatred like anyone would, but you have got to love kill again and again, unable to city." t. -' McCann said jurors realized Dahmer could have controlled his conduct. "This was an unusual individual, and I think the jury saw through it," he said. "His whole conduct showed he was a con artist ... and he is above average in intelligence, and that's committing the th "Justice was done," said the ' from selves crimes. Few crimes compare to Dahmer's for sheer horror, and his trial provided an study of sane or the mind of a killer who had strayed as far outside insane the bounds of civilized behavior as most people could imagine. Even his own lawyer said he was not there to excuse Dahmer's behavior, but to explain it. He insisted that Dahmer's craving for sex with the dead and his fear of lonelito ness drove him out of control Rev. Gene Champion, who counseled relatives. "The healing can now come forth. That is a blessing for the families, a blessing for the '. stone-face- ease, and that the disease kept them from knowing right from wrong or made them unable to stop them- all we went by," said juror Karl W. Stahle. Elba Duggins said she and other jurors were struck by the graphic testimony during the trial. "I've already dealt with it partially by leaving the room and crying," she said. Defense attorney Gerald Boyle said he warned Dahmer beforehand to expect the worst. He said Dahmer thanked him for trying. "I'm pretty sure that he wants to close the book on it and just live out the rest of his life as he knows it's going to be," Boyle said. er action on implants . A jury MILWAUKEE (AP) found Saturday that Jeffrey Dah-mwas sane when he killed and dismembered 15 men and boys in a horrifying quest for sexual gratifi- McCann said just the opposite: Dahmer was in the grip of evil, not insanity, when he picked up young men for sex and then drugged and strangled them, in some cases first performing crude brain surgery in the vain hope of creating zombies who would serve as his sexual slaves. McCann argued that necrophilia is a personality disorder, not a mental illness. sin, defendants must prove that they suffered from a mental dis four-engi- ne Storm dumps snow, rain on flooded California .t - water-logge- 1 Police apprehend robber - 1 river-bloatin- n, man and a pregnant woman in a mudslide. At least five people were missing, including two skiers believed trapped by an avalanche in the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles. In Santa Barbara, about 100 miles northwest of Los Angeles, rain fell at the rate of an inch an hour at the storm's height. More than 70 oak trees near Beach in northern Santa Barbara County were uprooted early Ja-la- Saturday by strong wind. "It's an eerie sight," said Don Eittfrim, owner of the Jalama f I Beach Store. "You're driving down and all of a sudden you see total destruction. Limbs of trees with no foliage sticking out of the ground. A steel post completely bent in a It's really strange for this part of the country, "he said. Workers frantically built a sandbag dike around a mobile home park threatened by a rising creek, but the water receded just before reaching the trailers, said police Sgt. Merlyn Kelly. mk ! f" - newborn's death - -- 18-- great-grandmoth- rs at two-ho- EBMPV W African drums sounded during the burial, which also featured a military honor guard. 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