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Colorado funeral home owners resentenced to federal prison for selling body parts without families’ permission
The same judge, Christine M. Arguello, on Monday stuck with her original sentences, giving Megan Hess 20 years and Shirley ...
Judge resentences former funeral home owners accused of selling hundreds of human remains
Megan Hess and her mother, Shirley Koch, appeared in federal court to be resentenced after an appeals court confirmed a ...
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Sunset Mesa Funeral Home owners, convicted for selling body parts, get same sentences in resentencing
The daughter and mother funeral home directors received their original sentences of 20 and 15 years in prison.
MN Court of Appeals upholds murder conviction of ER practitioner who claimed girlfriend died by suicide in St. Paul
In his appeal, Matthew Ecker, 46, claimed the circumstantial evidence supported a reasonable hypothesis that 32-year-old ...
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Beyond Ivy League, RFK Jr.’s NIH slashed science funding across states that backed Trump
The Trump administration has singled out Ivy League universities for funding cuts, but the spending reductions go much ...
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Judge: Fraud scheme involving bodies propelled by greed; Hess, Koch receive new sentences identical to original ones
Megan Hess and Shirley’s Koch’s conduct was far from altruistic when they operated a scheme to obtain bodies for the research ...
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ABA Supreme Court PREVIEW
PREVIEW is an eight-issue subscription publication that provides expert, plain-language analysis of all cases given plenary review by the Supreme Court in advance of oral argument. Preview issues 1-7 ...