As I suspected, the “letter from the grave” was too much to overcome. After 32 hours of deliberation over three days, Mark Jensen was found guilty of murdering his wife. Interestingly, the much-fought-over letter was deemed to fall within the “dying declaration” exception to the Hearsay Rule by the Wisconsin Supreme court, which expanded the traditional parameters of the “dying declaration” exception to include this letter.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/21/jensen.verdict/index.html
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