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Credibility.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(robbery incident in Youngstown, Ohio)
After a June 11 altercation in a Youngstown, Ohio, home left the homeowner with stab wounds and an alleged intruder with a gunshot wound, police indicated that the homeowner and the alleged intruder gave very different accounts of the events. The homeowner claimed that an armed stranger marched him and his 13-yearold son at gunpoint into the house, where the homeowner subsequently fought with the intruder. The alleged intruder, on the other hand, said that he was an acquaintance of the homeowner and that he went to the house unarmed. In the immediate aftermath of the altercation, the chief of detectives for Youngstown stated to the press: "The truth is probably somewhere in the middle."
It turns out that the truth was not "somewhere in the middle." The homeowner, Forrest Adams, was telling the complete truth all along. Almost nothing in the intruder's version of events turned out to be true--not even his name. When first questioned by police as he lay in bed at a hospital, the intruder gave his name as Dennis Pixley, an 18-year-old, but police learned through the man's girlfriend that his name was Derrick Harman, a 28-yearold violent felon who'd just been paroled from prison seven months previously after being incarcerated since 1998 for assault and aggravated robbery. There is a real Dennis Pixley, but his ID had been stolen several months earlier and Harman had appropriated his ...
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