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The first trial ended last month when the jury in the Texas case stunned Merck with a $ 253 million liability verdict although that will be slashed to about $ 26 million because Texas caps punitive damages . Merck plans to appeal . The goal of this Future Search meeting as defined by the planning committee was " to develop a collective vision to increase the appreciation , utilization , and care of our region 's cultural heritage resources . He also presented witnesses , including the pathologist who performed the autopsy , who said a heart attack more than likely caused the fatal arrhythmia , but he died too quickly for his heart to show damage.Lowry , like Merck 's expert witnesses , told jurors the autopsy report did n't note a heart attack because there was no evidence of one beyond theories put forth more than four years later . Prosecutors claim she begged the ex-boyfriend , Jason Arrant , and another former lover , Brian Radel , to murder her mother after telling them falsely that she was being physically abused at home.Her defense contends Waterman 's complaints against her mother were typical teenage angst and Arrant had his best friend , Radel , kill Lauri Waterman because she broke up his romance with the teenager.Small-town investigationIn his three hours on the witness stand , Claus indicated that the direction of the investigation was heavily informed by his own personal connections to the Waterman family and other residents of Prince of Wales Island . Married with five grown children , Humeston , 60 , now fears a second heart attack and has abandoned his plan to move to rural Idaho because he wants to remain near his doctors.As far as Merck is concerned , Humeston 's heart attack had nothing to do with Vioxx : More prosaic factors , such as Humeston 's age , obesity , sedentary lifestyle , high cholesterol and high blood pressure , were what caused the heart attack . When authorities caught Watts in the act of attempting to drown Houston student Lori Lister in 1982 , he was a suspect in at least 26 other murders , but police lacked sufficient evidence to lay murder charges against him.They offered him immunity for the crimes he confessed to in exchange for a 60-year sentence for aggravated burglary.Watts successfully appealed the finding of an aggravating factor — the water he used to try to drown Lister — and was deemed a nonviolent felon , thus entitling him to receive three days ' good-time credit for every day served in prison.His release date moved up to 2006 . Culture in Philadelphia has become very expensive because institutions , increasingly , are forced to rely on earned income . She had given him his liberty ; true , there was a sense in which he had never parted with it , but now was no time for splitting hairs ; he was free to act , and all was clear ahead . Her lawyer said Tuesday that he expects her to resume the activities of a normal 17-year-old while she awaits the result of the appeal .