One of the biggest trials in the West, which is being held here, is going to the jury tomorrow:

James Arthur Ray is charged with multiple counts of manslaughter in a "Spiritual Warrior" sweat lodge experience in which three people died. How they died is the point on which this case turns. Prosecution alleges Ray deliberately told his followers they'd be liberated after a "near death" experience, and refused to acknowledge or help people who were obviously in extremis from heat stroke. Defense alleges they had free choice, and that insecticides embedded in and near the sweat lodge caused the deaths. Both sides paid expert witnesses to testify to the cause of death--they didn't rely on the coroner, whose testimony wasn't considered definitive.


Ntra la porta tua lu sangu � sparsu,
E nun me mporta si ce muoru accisu...
E s'iddu muoru e vaju mparadisu
Si nun ce truovo a ttia, mancu ce trasu.