This from today's Los Angeles Times: DEAF KILLER'S FATE RESTS ON MENTAL HEALTH Prosecutors and defense disagree whether a Laguna Hills man was sane when he stabbed neighbor. Judge found racial hatred as motive. By Mai Tran, Times Staff Writer The two young men grew up next door to each other. They spent hours playing video games in each other's living rooms. As they got older, they shared cigarettes in the driveways and backyards of their Laguna Hills homes. All of which makes the scene in an Orange County courtroom that much harder to fathom.One of the young men, Christopher Hearn, 20, has been convicted of murdering the other, Kenneth Chiu, his then 17-year-old neighbor of more than a decade. The slaying took place July 30, 2001, shortly after Chiu returned home from an evening out with friends. <snip> Ken, please say this isn't YOU!!! Are you still with us?? ~Brier +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-+ Snipp snapp snut, sa var sagan slut! +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+