Haleigh Poutre update...
These bastards STILL want to torture Haleigh!
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Fourteen-year-old Haleigh Poutre may still be called as a witness in the trial of her stepfather, who is accused of participating in her near-fatal beating three years ago.
 Haleigh Poutre |
At a hearing this morning in Springfield, Alan Black, a lawyer for Jason Strickland, said that the brain-damaged girl remains on the "witness list," and he declined to say for certain whether he would call her to the stand, according to first assistant clerk Kevin Claffey.
The trial is scheduled to begin on Oct. 29.
Haleigh, a Westfield girl who was once at the center of a national end-of-life controversy, remains at a pediatric rehabilitation facility in Brighton. Though she lapsed into a coma in the fall of 2005 and nearly had her life support removed, she has recovered to the point that she can speak some simple words and attend a day school.
Haleigh Poutre may still testify
