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<text id=91TT1014>
<title>
May 13, 1991: American Notes:Crime
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<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
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<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>
</body></article>
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