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Joe Harris County spends his days in court, keeping score on the trials he watches
Continued from page 2
Published on July 08, 2008 at 11:33am
Picking up his cane, hobbling out of the courtroom, Joe leaned down in the hallway to tell the mother of the dead that "it's going great for you. It couldn't be better for you!" he said. "They're hanging him with a long rope in there. They're hanging him slowly!"
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Scott Gilbert
For Joe Harris County, the best cases have the most gore.
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Joe Harris County, violent crime, Harris County criminal courtsFor the first time that day, Maria Watson smiled and even cackled. "Ha!" she said. "He's got a way with words, don't he?"
Postscript: On the fifth day of trial, Steven See pled guilty to the murders of Annette Watson and Austin Timmerman, in exchange for a sentence of 50 years in prison. Joe Harris County by then had been thrown out of court.
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