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Emerging from a variety of existing literary and rhetorical forms - - among them criminal biography , the conversion narrative , the letter , the conduct book , the diary , romance , drama , and allegory - - the novel was , before it was anything else , new . 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 . Attorneys for Merck say the company acted responsibly , putting patients first and pulling the drug once the risks surfaced.Merck faces more than 5,000 lawsuits filed in state and federal courts — about half of them in New Jersey state courts — by former Vioxx users alleging the medicine harmed them.The first trial ended last month when a Texas jury hit Merck with a $ 253 million liability verdict , which will be slashed to about $ 26 million because Texas caps punitive damages . Seizing his hat , he sprang to the door and descended the stairs at a run .