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- <text id=91TT1014>
- <title>
- May 13, 1991: American Notes:Crime
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- May 13, 1991 Crack Kids
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 27
- American Notes
- CRIME
- Scot Free--For Now
- </hdr><body>
- <p> At first police thought a thief had murdered Army Specialist
- Anthony Riggs, who was shot in Detroit within days of his
- return from the gulf. But then the plot twisted when suspicion
- fell on Riggs' wife Toni and her brother Michael Cato, who were
- accused of killing Riggs to collect his $175,000 life insurance
- policy. Last week Judge Vesta Svenson dismissed the murder
- charge against Toni Riggs, ruling that Cato's confession could
- not be used as evidence against her because it violated her
- Sixth Amendment right to confront her accuser.
- </p>
- <p> Riggs' freedom may be short-lived. She can be charged
- again if her brother testifies against her in his own trial, if
- new evidence is brought or if Judge Svenson's ruling is
- overturned. Says Wayne County prosecutor George Ward, who will
- appeal the ruling: "We think even without that confession there
- was sufficient circumstantial evidence to bind her over."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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