(Editor’s note: The following story was published in the Princeton-Union Eagle and was prepared for the Star News. As we prepared to go to press, news broke of Justin Kapla being freed. We have separate story with the few details that were available at press time, and below is the story published in the Union-Eagle.)
by Joel Strottrup
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