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Dr. Jack Kevorkian thought it was an act of mercy to help over 130 terminally ill patients die a peaceful, pain-free death; Michigan prosecutors said it was murder and spent years trying to get a jury to agree with them.

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Michigan v. Kevorkian

Scott Amendure thought the "Jenny Jones Show" was the perfect place to reveal to his friend Jonathan Schmitz that he had a crush on him; three days later, Schmitz shot Amendure to death.

Michigan v. Schmitz

Reverend Randall Foos says it was just an unfortunate accident when his car hit and killed 19-year-old Sara Casey as she rode her bicycle, but a civil suit revealed more than the eye could see, or couldn't, that turned this accident into a crime.

Washington v. Foos

Harry wanted to do the right thing when he agreed to talk to his brother's sometimes-girlfriend Kimberly Passwaters about their relationship; when Dave Beck killed her, the right thing became being the state's star witness in Dave's murder trial.

Wisconsin v. Beck

Nancy Seaman doesn't denied killing her husband Robert with a hatchet; either she planned it or the murder was a desperate attempt to save her own life after, what she claims, was three decades of physical and emotional abuse.

Michigan v. Seaman

Julie Jensen suspected her husband and the father of her children Mark Jensen wanted her dead, so she put pen to paper telling the world just that; Mark Jensen's lawyer attempts to use that same letter to prove that Julie framed him.

Wisconsin v. Jensen

Frank Jude nearly lost his life when a group of drunken off-duty Milwaukee police officers brutalized him over a missing badge; his real fight would be taking on the Blue Wall of Silence in his quest for justice.

Wisconsin v. Masarik

Mary Kay Letourneau, 34 year-old married schoolteacher and mother, was having sex with a 12 year old student, and the story grabbed headlines around the world; it's only the first in a series of wild revelations.

Washington v. Letourneau

Scott Falater claims he was sleepwalking when he brutally stabbed and drowned his wife and the mother of his children.

Arizona v. Falater

Jeffery Pyne was every parent's dream in so many ways, so many wonder what drove him to commit the brutal murder of his own mother.

Michigan v. Pyne

Jennifer Luck said she was having a little fun when she pinched Andrew Wirth's buttocks in a bar; that pinch resulted in the deaths of Jennifer and her boyfriend Greg Peters.

Wisconsin v. Wirth

Emotions ran high in the days following the Nov. 11, 2001 attack on the U.S.; for the most part, the grief and anger brought people together but for Frank Roque, it was a motivation for killing an innocent immigrant chasing the American dream.

Arizona v. Roque

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