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Rhino
04-17-2006, 01:46 PM
Court to Decide if 'Poison' Letter Allowed in Murder Trial

Monday, April 17, 2006
Associated Press

MILWAUKEE — About two weeks before her death, Julie C. Jensen went to a neighbor, shaking and crying, and handed over a sealed envelope. If anything happened to her, she said, he should give it to police. She wrote that she felt her husband never forgave her for a brief affair she had seven years earlier, and that she had seen him visit Internet sites about poisoning.

"I pray I'm wrong + nothing happens ... but I am suspicious of Mark's suspicious behaviors + fear for my demise," the 40-year-old woman allegedly wrote in the letter dated Nov. 21, 1998.

More than seven years after the southern Wisconsin woman died from poisoning, the state Supreme Court is considering whether to allow her statements as evidence in her husband's murder trial.

Jensen was found dead Dec. 3, 1998, in her bed in her Pleasant Prairie home about 40 miles south of Milwaukee. An autopsy revealed she died from at least two doses of ethylene glycol, commonly used as antifreeze..........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,192023,00.html

Rhino
04-17-2006, 04:49 PM
I was wondering why it wouldn't be allowed.

Eagle1
04-17-2006, 05:18 PM
you would be surprised at what some judges will exclude from trials