Alecia and Andrew Schmuhl
We simply want our lives back. We never wanted to become thought of as the people who were attacked by these criminals. We were just your son and daughter, your brother and sister, your friends, your colleagues, your buddies and your neighbors. That’s all we want to be — again.
— Leo Fisher, a shareholder of Bean, Kinney & Korman, in powerful testimony given after the conviction of lawyer Andrew Schmuhl. The jury recommended that Schmuhl get two life sentences plus 98 years in prison for invading the Fishers’ home and attacking Leo Fisher and his wife. Andrew’s wife Alecia goes on trial in September.
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